You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams Votes: 4
David McCulloughLet's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times. Votes: 3
Malcolm XAs one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn) Votes: 3
Scott WesterfeldQuestion everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. Votes: 2
Ernest GainesA thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Votes: 2
Saint AugustineAn idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Votes: 2
Charles DickensI believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken. Votes: 2
Robert KiyosakiBe able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. Votes: 2
Marilyn vos SavantA judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. Votes: 0
Saint Francis de SalesSymbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world. Votes: 0
Gertrud von Le FortFrom dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift. Votes: 0
Sir David Baird, 1st BaronetI have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent. Votes: 0
Arsenius the GreatThe loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken. Votes: 0
Ashley MontaguA well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. Votes: 0
George HerbertI'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums. Votes: 0
Jennifer Yuh NelsonThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality. Votes: 0
Gaston BachelardWords of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. Votes: 0
Joanna BaillieProse-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol OatesIn a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts. Votes: 0
Hortense CalisherThe real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds Votes: 0
Nelson MandelaIt is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken Votes: 0
Francis BeaumontThere is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken. Votes: 0
Shappi KhorsandiPlain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them. Votes: 0
Kin HubbardMorning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Votes: 0
Eleanor FarjeonPeople's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear. Votes: 0
Anthony BourdainIt was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt. Votes: 0
Donna Woolfolk CrossI haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her. Votes: 0
Ken DoddI haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. Votes: 0
John Walker LindhI would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours Votes: 0
Albert ShankerThose who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word. Votes: 0
T. B. JoshuaThere is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well; Votes: 0
Alexander the GreatThe true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. Votes: 0
Don DeLilloThere are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. Votes: 0
Edgar DegasOne never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much. Votes: 0
Philippe de ComminesWhenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love. Votes: 0
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonI believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken. Votes: 0
Stephen ColbertA truly successful person is some one , whose failures are equally spoken as his success. Votes: 0
Gopichand Lagadapati. . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children. Votes: 0
Mickey RooneyConcerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.] Votes: 0
PlutarchThere is no love without respect.There isn't much truth if spoken without genuine honesty. Votes: 0
Alexandra ElleTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Votes: 0
Marcel ProustThe more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. Votes: 0
Benjamin WhichcoteThe relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken. Votes: 0
Martin HeideggerThere are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that. Votes: 0
Dash MihokVermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect. Votes: 0
Dorothy Canfield FisherThe people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonDeath... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. Votes: 0
David EaglemanWords that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief. Votes: 0
Charles CappsA work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. Votes: 0
Russell ShermanNo truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorThere would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken. Votes: 0
Robert FrostThe silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after? Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajThe earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word. Votes: 0
IsaiahWords that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is. Votes: 0
Nancy DuarteArt is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening. Votes: 0
Mary WigmanThe greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written. Votes: 0
Edgar Allan PoeAll epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerWhether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. Votes: 0
Frank HerbertFor truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneWhen I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since. Votes: 0
Steven WrightI was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to. Votes: 0
Ann PatchettI don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life. Votes: 0
Anthony HorowitzHelp me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away. Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerThere are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldA word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery Republican that I know of ran on the full repeal of Obamacare...The voters have spoken. Votes: 0
Steve KingAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonMake sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview Votes: 0
Beyonce KnowlesThe cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard Votes: 0
Ben FoldsFor one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself. Votes: 0
Paul WeyrichBeing deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaThe Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING. Votes: 0
A.W. TozerI quit my job at the helium gas factory. I didn't like being spoken to in that voice. Votes: 0
Stewart FrancisI am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being. Votes: 0
Jacques LacanIf she's not spoken for, and you come at her correctly, like a man, she'll get with you. Votes: 0
Tracy MorganI'm gonna love you like I've never been broken I'm gonna say it like it's never been spoken Votes: 0
Demi LovatoLove remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreThrow off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken. Votes: 0
RumiA queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten. Votes: 0
Nalini SinghThe language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere. Votes: 0
Paul CelanHe who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken. Votes: 0
Saint PatrickWhat you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. Votes: 0
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonI mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't. Votes: 0
Diane ArbusThe voice of the heart is much stronger than all the other sounds and words spoken without feelings Votes: 0
Ekamdeep SinghI have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname. Votes: 0
Jack Kent Cooke...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone. Votes: 0
Arturo Pérez-ReverteChrist has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardIt gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one. Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussI have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. Votes: 0
Clayton ChristensenIf you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak. Votes: 0
Jessica HartThere is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words. Votes: 0
Randeep HoodaWe are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing. Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneIt was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously. Votes: 0
Anthony KiedisI want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash Votes: 0
Sapardi Djoko DamonoIt is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap. Votes: 0
M.I.A.I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story. Votes: 0
Lynn CullenHe kissed each finger, and with each one of them spoken a word. Five kisses, five words. His last. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareTo excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. Votes: 0
Spyridon MarinatosThe words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. Votes: 0
Mitt RomneyIf evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. Votes: 0
EpictetusWhen a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him. Votes: 0
Thomas HobbesNo man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerThe word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. Votes: 0
Joyce MaynardYou might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me. Votes: 0
Quentin S. CrispOne of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. Votes: 0
Lord SalisburyOne of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. Votes: 0
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of SalisburyMr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream. Votes: 0
Jane AustenI don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. Votes: 0
Benny GreenI had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth. Votes: 0
Eudora WeltyLove is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens. Votes: 0
Raneem KayyaliIn a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol OatesAlthough spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. Votes: 4 Marilyn vos Savant
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. Votes: 8 Jane Goodall
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. Votes: 6 Adolf Hitler
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. Votes: 3 Sarah Kay