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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. -- Alfred North Whitehead
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams -- David McCullough
Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times. -- Malcolm X
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. -- Timothy Noah
As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn) -- Scott Westerfeld
Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter) -- Ann Brashares
I donâ??t have to be logical. Iâ??m a leopard. Weâ??re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.) -- Amy Neftzger
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2 -- William Shakespeare
Every spoken word arouses our self-will. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. -- Ernest Gaines
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. -- Orson Scott Card
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. -- Publilius Syrus
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. -- Hermann Hesse
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- Saint Augustine
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. -- Rodney Dangerfield
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. -- Charles Dickens
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. -- Marilyn vos Savant
I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations. -- Kim Ki-duk
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. -- Marshall McLuhan
I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.' -- Mike Wallace
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. -- Sri Aurobindo
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. -- Audre Lorde
Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception. -- Maximillian Degenerez
In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away. -- Frank Abagnale
That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken. -- Saint Patrick
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself. -- Domenico Dolce
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided. -- Aristotle
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him. -- James Spader
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds. -- Sarah Kay
Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home. -- Don Everly
A secret spoken finds wings. -- Robert Jordan
Love is the last light spoken. -- Dylan Thomas
Many true words are spoken in jest. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Tears are words waiting to be spoken -- Paulo Coelho
Music is the language spoken by angels. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Words once spoken can never be recalled. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
The written word endures, the spoken word disappears -- Neil Postman
Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans. -- John F. Kerry
Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken -- John Mulaney
God has spoken, and everything else is commentary. -- Rob Bell
What is religion? That which is never spoken. -- Henry David Thoreau
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken. -- Mason Cooley
Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence. -- Mason Cooley
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. -- Gertrude Stein
Royalty does good and is badly spoken of. -- Antisthenes
Trust is not spoken, Trust is a feeling. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
There's many a true word spoken in jest. -- James Joyce
It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken. -- Amy Poehler
Many a true word is spoken in jest -- Geoffrey Chaucer
A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding. -- Mason Cooley
Music was known and understood before words were spoken. -- Charles Darwin
Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists. -- John Lennox
When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn. -- Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker. -- Walter Wangerin
Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker. -- Walter Wangerin
because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary. -- Rob Bell
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest. -- William Shakespeare
In my day you didn't speak until spoken to. -- Andre Leon Talley
God continues to speak through what He has spoken. -- John Stott
No scene is ever about the words being spoken. -- Del Close
Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed. -- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling
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Love doesn't always have to be spoken out loud. -- Jay Crownover
I like spoken-word as much as the singing word. -- Loren Mazzacane Connors
John McCain has not spoken about my Muslim faith. -- Barack Obama
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken. -- Shannon L. Alder
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. -- Joseph Addison
I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent -- Publilius Syrus
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I've always spoken my mind. There's no reason not to! -- Nina Garcia
Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part. -- T.H. White
The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths. -- Tristan Tzara
Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. -- Jeanette Winterson
In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken. -- N. Scott Momaday
The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane. -- Faith Ford
Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. -- Saint Francis de Sales
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. -- Jane Austen
There was nothing worse than hearing your own fears spoken aloud. -- Kristi Cook
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. -- Heinrich Heine
The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken. -- Seal
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I certainly like that the Spanish language is spoken around me. -- Andrew Breitbart
Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice. -- George Lillo
I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future. -- Molly Sims
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken. -- Barry Humphries
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! -- John Newton
The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao. -- Laozi
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess. -- Henny Youngman
If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of. -- Hesiod
Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken. -- Don McLean
Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. -- Anne Frank
Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of. -- Susanna Centlivre
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word. -- Jeanne Moreau
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. -- E. W. Howe
Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed. -- Charles Osgood
Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world. -- Gertrud von Le Fort
Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists. -- John Lennox
You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken. -- Richelle Mead
Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real. -- Dan Fogelberg
Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak. -- William Shakespeare
I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat -- Deb Caletti
If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken. -- Kim Kardashian
God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to! -- Martin Buber
Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken! -- Pat Robertson
The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken. -- Ashley Montagu
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. -- Joanna Baillie
It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of. -- Antisthenes
When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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