Spoken Word Quotes

• 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.

  Adolf Hitler

  Passion, People, Torches

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.129, eKitap Projesi

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• A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

  Molefi Kete Asante

  Wise, Meaningful, Wisdom

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• Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Literature, Self Will

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• While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Home, Hands, Convenience

  "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

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

  Ted Chiang

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  Ted Chiang (2007). “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Subterranean

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Letting Go, Technology, Men

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Art, Poet, Substitutes

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• It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Masters, My Ambition

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Kids, Want

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• I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

  Umar

  Regret, Silence, Words Of Wisdom

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

  Adolf Hitler

  Events, Revolutionary, Epoch

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• Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.

  LeCrae

  Use

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• Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

  April Winchell

  Christmas, Lonely, Children

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• We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Witty

  "Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchil"l, Students' Academy, Lulu Press, Section Three, 2014.

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Teacher, Religious

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• Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.

  H. Emilie Cady

  Clothes, Hammers, Substance

  H. Emilie Cady (2014). “The Spiritual Writings Of H. Emilie Cady”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Spoken word teaches that if you have the ability to express yourself and the courage to present those stories and opinions, you could be rewarded with a room full of your peers or your community who will listen.

  Sarah Kay

  Community, Peers, Stories

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• I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

  Matt de la Pena

  Feelings, Style, Way

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• Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

  Madeleine Sophie Barat

  Example, Saint, World

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• Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

  Brian Tracy

  Confidence, Attitude, Knowledge

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House

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• Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

  Robin Williams

  Sad, Tired, Boys

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• In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Truth, Integrity, People

  Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

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• Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Flower

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

  Pythagoras

  Ideas

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

  Denise Duhamel

  Writing, Community, Bob

  Source: therumpus.net

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