Quotes About Spoken

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

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 is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.

There is not such a word Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.

Enmities which are unspoken and hidden are more to be feared than those which are outspoken and open.' —CICERO.

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

From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.

It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.

Ab-Souls Outro' serves as a jazzy, spoken summation of 'Section.80's themes. Guest cohort Ab-Soul opens the song with one urgent verse after another: Flowing freely like the saxophone behind him, his words advocate veering outside life's most predictable pathways.

They were spoken in the heat of an unpleasant moment, and not to be taken at face value in any permanent sense. Remember

Even though I now speak the language fairly well, the spoken language doesn't help me. A conversation involves a sort of collaboration and, often, an act of forgiveness. When I speak I can make mistakes, but I'm somehow able to make myself understood. On the page I am alone. The spoken language is a kind of antechamber with respect to the written, which has a stricter, more elusive logic.

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

an action can last for a while, but a spoken, word last forever.

I notice that many people trust the written word more than the spoken word.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

God is a God who speaks!

Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting jazz and scat, as in scat-singing, to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word.

Latin – if increasingly debased and diluted – continued to be the spoken and written language, used by the invaders and the native populations alike.

To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.

The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.

And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us? And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.

Utterance" Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence

the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" Merely this and nothing more.