Top 396 Aloud Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words 'climate change' aloud.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

I love the Girls Aloud songs and get messages from fans asking to hear them performed live again.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.

The trouble is, I don't read aloud well, and never have. I grew up dyslexic, and it's remained uncomfortable for me even as an adult.

Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.

Slowly but surely, people don't see 'Popstars: The Rivals,' they see Girls Aloud. We're a band in our own right.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Today's my wedding day, Mom," he said softly aloud. "I'm marrying the woman I always told you I would someday.

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

I'm sure that inside your heart... you're trying with all your might to find it on your own... the reason you were born. Because... because really... there might not be anyone who was born with a reason. I think that everyone... everyone might have to find one on their own. [in her head] A reason for being born... A reason that it's okay to be alive... A reason to exist. [aloud] I think everyone might have to find it themselves... and decide it for themselves. It could be your dreams... your job... or a person... The reason you're looking for... might be vague, unclear... and uncertain. [in her head] And you might lose it. [aloud] But as long as you're alive... you have to keep searching for that reason.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.

Reading aloud could be humiliating, I was shy about doing it. Bear in mind I failed my English GCSE and A levels, which goes to prove that if I can embrace it, so can anyone.

The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.

In Girls Aloud, there's always someone there to help out, to jump in on difficult questions and to moan with about how hard we're working. That camaraderie isn't there when you're solo.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago.

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud.

Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care.

For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

Nadine from Girls Aloud could definitely go solo - she's the one with the talent and will have a successful solo career.

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.