Top 1200 Spoken Word Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

The word 'resilience,' in our American culture is closely aligned with 'grit,' and that word implies a certain moral fiber that says you can survive and thrive in any adversity, because you are strong - but that message of strength is both disqualifying and problematic.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.

There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

A truly successful person is some one , whose failures are equally spoken as his success.

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

If you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak.

Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.

Obama has spoken out a few times since on race, but without much effect.

How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.

Sometimes your fans are way deeper than you are. They think you meant something like this big power-of-the-world thing that you said, but really you were just trying to find a word to rhyme with another word.

Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

We minister the Word of God. The proclamation of the Gospel comes after individuals have opened their hearts to God and turned from themselves to others. Only then are they truly ready to hear and benefit fully from the Word of the Lord.

Every time your faith is strengthened as you hear the Word, release it through your mouth to receive your miracle, for God’s Word is out to prosper you!

It's difficult to sit down and write a letter back saying, "you know what, even if we remove the word from the dictionary, people will still continue to use it." That's the tightrope that we walk - "gay marriage" is another example, or the word "nude."

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

I'm someone who is inspired by people who've spoken out about different racial and gender issues.

It's not ok to make up stories about someone's life and you haven't even spoken with them.

DeGale has the pedigree that is spoken about in terms of gold medallists and former world champions.

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community.

Almost all words do have color, and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her, too.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.

Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?

At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it.

The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.

The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.