Spoken Quotes

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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word.

Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.

I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.