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Quotes About Spoken

Love is the last light spoken.
~ Dylan Thomas
Fuck words, nothing spoken comprehends the defiantly ephemeral. I take my incompleteness with the rest, an exile in any language.
~ Eric Gamalinda
some ceremony or course of action, always precedes the formulation of the myth, and it is obvious that action must come before knowledge, the unconscious deed before the spoken content.
~ Erich Neumann
My my, the cruelest lies are often told without a word My my, the kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
~ Ben Folds
An old, old formula came to mind, from back when I was very young indeed. "I am a soldier." I said it first in the language I had spoken then, then repeated myself in Sleepy's own Dejagoran dialect. "I've been distracted before. I'm still alive.
~ Glen Cook
I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare from heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.
~ James Fenton
To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.
~ Kevin Young
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
~ Anohni
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.
~ Langston Hughes
And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
~ William Shakespeare
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.
~ Bo Sanchez
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.
~ Bill Chickering
The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.
~ Jane Austen
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.
~ Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.
~ Dan Fogelberg
Legends can live and breathe only on verbal terrain
~ Siri Hustvedt
Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.
~ Grace Paley