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“The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.”

Way Action Courses Individual Gone Mutual Cliffs Spoken Word Saying Nothing

Book:We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.”

People World Paper Mouths Theatre Fascinated Fascination Spoken Word Matched Words On Paper

Author:Athol Fugard

“No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an articulate and improvisational field of powers ever responsive to human actions and spoken words.”

“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.”

Knows Different Eye Film Speak Behinds Rich Happenings Dialogue Hopefully Internals Volume Register Unspoken Spoken Word Unspoken Words

Author:Viola Davis

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

Good Things Things To Do Spoken Word Good Communication

Book:The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny

Source: The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny

“Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.”

People Whole Facts Lying Forget Telling The Truth Small Parts Spoken Word Whole Truth True Or False

Book:Under the Glacier

Source: Under the Glacier

“Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.”

World Writing Eye Speak Imagination Behinds Written Air Strange Wind Ears Substance Realms Nerves Lap Labyrinth Ripple Written Word Spoken Word

Author:Dan Beachy-Quick

“To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.”

Names Powerful Movement Most Powerful Devices Presentation Spoken Word

Author:Nancy Duarte

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

Unspoken Spoken Word Unspoken Words

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.”

Men Law Affirmation Spoken Word

Book:The Complete Collection (with the book

Source: The Complete Collection (with the book

“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.”

Way Reason Feelings Style Rhythm Outlets Spoken Word

Author:Matt de la Pena

“Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.”

Acting Spoken Word

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.”

People Feels Pain Joy Animal Profit Obligation Torture Slaughter Spoken Word Fear Of Love

Author:Denis de Rougemont

“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.”

Ifs Stories Community Ability Rooms Opinion Teach Peers Express Yourself Spoken Word

Author:Sarah Kay

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

Real Words Deeds Practicals Spoken Word Demonstrating

Author:Nelson Mandela

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

Silence Regret Words Of Wisdom Speech Irony Repeats Spoken Word Never Regret Silence Is Golden

Author:Umar

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

Use Words Neglect Wasting Time Rapper Careless Spoken Word Carelessness Negligence Don't Waste Your Time

Author:LeCrae

“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.”

Firsts Body Shapes Clothes Substance Visible Hammers Spoken Word

Book:The Spiritual Writings Of H. Emilie Cady

Source: The Spiritual Writings Of H. Emilie Cady

“Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word.”

Use Overcoming Words Satan Power Of Words Spoken Word

Author:T. B. Joshua

“Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.”

Spoken Word Pitiful

Author:Charles Osgood

“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".”

Spirit Lord Pride Conflict Members Scripture Range Our Family Hostile Family Members Contention Spoken Word

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.”

Mean Used Taste Mouths Gestures Spoken Word

Author:Martha Graham

“When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job—no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.”

Ifs Trying Persons Said Jobs Essence Spoken Word

Book:The Language of the American South

Source: The Language of the American South

“God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.”

Writing Years Mind Book Distance Spokes Persist Messengers Spoken Word

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.”

People Trying Art Shows Perfect Comedy Ran Youtube Showing Off Spoken Word

Author:Spoken Reasons

“The unspoken word never does harm.”

Doe Silence Harm Unspoken Spoken Word Unspoken Words

Author:Lajos Kossuth

“We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.”

Men World Humans Stills States Names Existence Our Lives Divine Depends Proud Creatures India Beast Primitive Obliged Formation Human Existence Spoken Word Vedas

Author:Norman Mailer

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