Quotes About Spoken words

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Weary of the Mind Gift and its random messages, he wanted to hear spoken words.

Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Oh, love that lives its life with laughter Or love that lives its life with tears Can die—but love that is never spoken Goes like a ghost through the winding years. . .

Les rencontres nous signent. Nous devenons des livres d'or. Nous apprenons à parler des mots donnés par nos aimés. Quand il la revoit, sa voix avait des plis comme la soie.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

I have spoken, you have heard, you have the facts, judge

It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before.

It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach the other side - just like I want the words. I want my words to build bridges strong enough to walk on. I want them to tower over the world so I can stand up on them and walk to the other side.

I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right.

She attempted to explain. I—when ... It was sitting in the snow, and— The spoft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price.

Author Glennon Doyle Melton wrote, "Every time we open our mouths and speak, we are either saying let their be light or let their be darkness.

Words are like breath. You say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.

She had been driving all afternoon, her head an echo chamber in which both spoken words and unspoken thoughts steadily collide, one-legged runners on America's highways.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

One thing marriage counseling instilled in Hilton was a compulsion for open communication. Whether at home or at work, he knew that anything left unsaid was far more dangerous than spoken words could be, no matter how hurtful. His

Y diré las palabras que se dicen, y comeré las cosas que se comen, y soñaré las cosas que se sueñan, y sé muy bien que no estarás.