Spoken Word Quotes - Page 2

• The words that matter always stay.

  David Levithan

  Meaningful, Important, Unspoken Words

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Foundation, Purpose

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.92, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

  Nancy Duarte

  Powerful, Names, Movement

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• I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

  Nick Cannon

  Writing, Stuff, Feels

  "Nick Cannon Gives Us An Exclusive Look Into The Making Of The New ‘Wild ‘N Out’ Mixtape". Interview with Miz Kane, thesource.com. August 2, 2016.

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• And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to be able to sell my jokes. And if you're talking about somebody like Sam Jackson, they do that. Sam Jackson can do that. Sam Jackson can turn it into the spoken word that it was always meant to be and he can sell my jokes. And Christopher Walken can do it and a lot of people can do it, all right.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Talking, People, Able

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

  George Carlin

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Believe, Men, Magic

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• The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Support, Adequate, Deeds

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• I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

  Martha Graham

  Mean, Mouths, Gestures

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word.

  T. B. Joshua

  Overcoming, Use, Satan

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• Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

  William Kurelek

  Drama, Men, Light

  William Kurelek, Joan Murray (1983). “Kurelek's vision of Canada”, McClelland & Stewart

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• To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Heart, Wind, Sea

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• God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Distance, Book, Writing

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• Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Prayer, Fire

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.22, 1895.

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• My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.

  Sarah Kay

  Falling In Love, People, Important

  Source: saseye.com

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• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, White, Space

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Real, Media, Living Right

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• Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

  Charles Stross

  Reading, Writing, Style

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

  Randeep Hooda

  Silence, Feels, Silence Is

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• Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Space, Essentials

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.81, Routledge

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• Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.

  Johannes Itten

  Light, Flames, Color

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• Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Gaps, Twisted

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions”, p.283, Macmillan

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• The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.

  William Carlos Williams

  Spring, Medicine, Years

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• We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Names, Vedas

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• It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
  [Lat., Delere licebit
  Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

  Horace

  Written Word, Recalls, Publish

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