Spoken Quotes

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

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.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

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.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.