Top 1200 Spoken Word Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know not when your last Sabbath with your people may come. Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

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

My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word' (John 17:14). In this book, I believe you will see that he has faithfully spoken God's Word that quenches the thirst of those seeking to draw from the wellsprings of Life. It is highly meaningful to see these statements now collected in one volume.

[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.

Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

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.

Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

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.

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

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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.

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

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

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.

I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

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.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

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

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power.

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.

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

The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

I kind of got popular as a spoken word artist, and I ended up doing some ads and audio stuff for Nike and Sprite.

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

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

Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'

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.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency of language to respond to what happens to you.

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.

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

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

The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.

I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.

I'm sorry, I see everything in life as a song, so every word spoken is lyrics. If you're going to get to know me, that is something you have to be okay with.

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

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

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.