Spoken Quotes

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

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

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same.

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

The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

The unspoken word never does harm.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

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

I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.