Spoken Word Quotes - Page 6

• ...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

  Steve Martin

  Hurt, Heart, Events

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

  Cornelia Funke

  Insects, Written Word, Eternal

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.289, Scholastic Inc.

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• Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Scripture, Spirit

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• Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.

  Harry Partch

  Writing, Path, Scales

  Harry Partch (2009). “Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments”, p.6, Da Capo Press

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• The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

  Nelson Mandela

  Real, Deeds, Practicals

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2016

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• ...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved. One day he will recognize music as a vital factor in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual evolution of the whole human race.

  Corinne Heline

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Men

  Corinne Heline (1965). “Music: the keynote of human evolution”

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• Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

  Orson Scott Card

  Parenting, Language Words, Silence

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• I never miss a good chance to shut up

  James Patterson

  Cowboy, Silence, Missing

  James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House

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• Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

  Will Durant

  Good Things, Good Communication, Things To Do

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

  Earl Wilson

  Communication, Writing, Thought Provoking

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• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

  Ann Landers

  Communication, Talking, May

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  Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Powerful, Reading, Communication

  Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

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• Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fall, Communication, Words You Speak

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

  Mark Twain

  Unspoken Words, Unspoken

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.521, Courier Corporation

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

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Choices

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Aug 08, 2016

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• On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Mean

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.

  Viola Davis

  Eye, Different, Unspoken Words

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Flower, Practice

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• Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Men, Views, Long

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.214, Psychology Press

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