Utterances Quotes
44 quotes by 41 authors
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Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as…
— Robert Benchley
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An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.
— Gary Saul Morson
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Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within.…
— Lucy Larcom
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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when…
— Mark Twain
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JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a…
— Edward Ruscha
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It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious…
— Alexander Crummell
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances,…
— Clare Boothe Luce
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so…
— Petrarch
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I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury…
— Lew Wallace
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine.…
— Thomas Carlyle
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This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things.…
— Dante Alighieri
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[Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person…
— Sarah Dessen
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Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.
— Greg L. Bahnsen
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Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail…
— John Battelle
Who Wrote These Utterances Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 44 Utterances Quotes, led by these top contributors: