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Every spoken word arouses our self-will. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. -- April Winchell
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. -- Russell Simmons
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. -- Adolf Hitler
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it. -- Mark Twain
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word. -- Winston Churchill
Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word. -- T. B. Joshua
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. -- Adolf Hitler
You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought. -- Michael Beckwith
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. -- Ted Chiang
As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not. -- Gautama Buddha
Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. -- Harry Partch
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart. -- Steve Martin
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
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
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
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point. -- Sun Tzu
Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this. -- Neil Gaiman
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap. -- M.I.A.
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past. -- Ma Jian
I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. -- Benny Green
Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy. -- Bruce McCulloch
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
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action. -- Tracy Letts
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.
Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. -- Mary Lambert
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
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
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
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person. -- Sarah Kay
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. -- John McWhorter
I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that. -- Matt Reeves
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures. -- Tracy Letts
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds. -- Will Hermes
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. -- Sarah Kay
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
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it. -- Spoken Reasons
The written word endures, the spoken word disappears -- Neil Postman
Many a true word is spoken in jest -- Geoffrey Chaucer
There's many a true word spoken in jest. -- James Joyce
I like spoken-word as much as the singing word. -- Loren Mazzacane Connors
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Many a true word hath been spoken in jest. -- William Shakespeare
In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken. -- N. Scott Momaday
Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. -- Ernest Gaines
Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken. -- Don McLean
In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess. -- Henny Youngman
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word. -- Jeanne Moreau
Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed. -- Charles Osgood
A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift. -- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken -- Ian Mcewan
A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages. -- Thomas Carlyle
Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God. -- George Whitefield
The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds -- Nelson Mandela
It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken -- Francis Beaumont
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. -- Timothy Noah
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word -- Frank Bough
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism. -- Nick Cannon
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. -- Walter Savage Landor
The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word. -- Isaiah
I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life. -- Anthony Horowitz
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard -- Ben Folds
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed. -- Iris Chang
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular. -- Gautama Buddha
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood. -- Victor Wooten
[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
He kissed each finger, and with each one of them spoken a word. Five kisses, five words. His last. -- Cassandra Clare
God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there. -- Ted Dekker
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word. -- Anthony Standen
Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written. -- Mark Driscoll
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus -- Cornelia Funke
The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. -- Joyce Maynard
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. -- Pythagoras
Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures. -- Pipilotti Rist
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. -- Hosea Ballou
Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens. -- Raneem Kayyali
The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power. -- Charles Capps
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken. -- Barry White
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life. -- George D. Prentice
It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. -- Menander
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
Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam. -- Idries Shah
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. -- Henry Fielding
What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure. -- Denise Duhamel
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. -- George D. Prentice
Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives. -- Teresa Mummert
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. -- George Dennison Prentice
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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
Whenever a word ''nigga'' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ?and the correct answer is Not really. -- Auliq a
Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body. -- H. Emilie Cady
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 question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders. -- Elisabeth Elliot
As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word. -- Peter Drucker
This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself. -- Martin Buber
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
For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I've been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I've lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone's nightmare? -- Yusef Komunyakaa
People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word. -- Grenville Kleiser
The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either. -- Lois Wyse
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! -- Walter Scott
You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album. -- Emmylou Harris
My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken. -- Madonna Ciccone
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. -- Wale
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal. -- Albert Pike
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. -- E. M. Forster
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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