Spoken Word Quotes

Spoken Word Quote of the day

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

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.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

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

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.

Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

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.

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

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

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.

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

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.

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.

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

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.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

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.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

...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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

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.

The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.

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.]

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

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

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

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.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.

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.

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

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.

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.

You are capable of doing everything you are afraid of doing, If only you would energize and motivate the Magical thing would absolutely happen to you!

The word of God is more powerful when put into action than when only spoken.