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

-- Charles Osgood

#Spoken Word Quotes

“There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.”
“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
“Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.”

Source : "POLDARK Star Aidan Turner on the Burden of Being “the Next DOWNTON ABBEY” and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2015.
“If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument. So why can't the argument itself be dismembered rather than the speaker's personal style or hidden motives? Why the evasions?”
“If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.”
“Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press
“My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.”
“There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. â€¦The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important.”

Source : Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.114, Nilgiri Press

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