Top 146 Utterance Quotes & Sayings

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008 as a group of fangirls squeeing and fainting at his every utterance.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president.

Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

A fatwa is not a diktat, it's not binding. To turn the utterance of a non-entity into a fatwa and then talk about it endlessly really gets on my nerves.

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--

A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into silence does not necessarily hate language. Perhaps it is love and respect for language which imposes silence upon him. For the mercy of God is not heard in words unless it is heard, both before and after the words are spoken, in silence.

The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.