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.

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.

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

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.

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.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

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

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

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

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.