Spoken Word Quotes - Page 4

• Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Lying, Humorous

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1192, GENERAL PRESS

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

  Victor Wooten

  Needs, Music Is, Understood

  61 Copy quote

• Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ideas, Two, Long

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.846, e-artnow

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

  Iris Chang

  Wind, Disappear, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, People, Silence

  5 Copy quote

• Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.

  Dan Beachy-Quick

  Writing, Eye, Air

  4 Copy quote

• Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.

  Halldór Laxness

  Lying, People, True Or False

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an articulate and improvisational field of powers ever responsive to human actions and spoken words.

  David Abram

  Ravens, Events, World

  4 Copy quote

• The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Gone, Way, Saying Nothing

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.126, Serpent's Tail

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.

  James Gleick

  Communication, Writing, Echoes

  4 Copy quote

• Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.

  Jill Scott

  Girl, Writing, Perspective

  "One on one: Jill Scott". LA Focus Newspaper Interview, lafocusnewspaper.com. October 6, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.

  Rich Ferguson

  Book, Companion

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Important, Dialogue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Bob Edwards

  Perfect, Different, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• There is no one who can stop you; you find a mic, a crowd, a set of ears, and nowadays, a camera and YouTube, and you recite your poem. You have your say. I don't want to over-romanticize it: of course, any time an art form ascends, especially when competition is involved, there will be gatekeeping, chauvinism, and other unfortunate dynamics. But the beauty of spoken word and performance poetry is, by and large, its ability to reach people in the moment - right there, right then.

  Bao Phi

  Art, People, Competition

  5 Copy quote

• I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.

  John Trudell

  Years, People, Worry

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original art form. Spaulding Grey and Karen Finley and other spoken word artists and performance artists really very much interested me, that art form.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Art, Grey, Form

  "George Carlin, my Father: Interview with Kelly Carlin". Interview With Robert W. Frashure, www.psychologyart.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information. Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.

  Tom Peters

  Important, Entering, May

  Source: www.researchgate.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Fall, Events

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, www.thesunmagazine.org. 1925.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Book, Hero

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Energy, Email, Imagine

  9 Copy quote

• Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

  Jeff Britting

  Meter, Regularity, Certain

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

  William Penn

  Doe, Unspoken Words, Defeat

  5 Copy quote

• I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.

  Paul Gambaccini

  Lucky, Enthusiasm, Film

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Doors, Views

  4 Copy quote