Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

Utterance Quotes

Quotes tagged as "utterance" Showing 1-11 of 11
Michael Bassey Johnson
“An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Ania Loomba
“No human utterance could be seen as innocent. Any set of words could be analysed to reveal not just an individual but a historical consciousness at work.”
Ania Loomba, Colonialism / Postcolonialism

“Never once, did Christ ever utter, "I came here to start a religion"

Early Christians did not worship items, relics, wars, or governments.”
Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau

Michael Bassey Johnson
“An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Alejandra Pizarnik
“Each word is you begging to utter it. Each word is the long invitation to memory.”
Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

Amit Abraham
“Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.”
Amit Abraham

Adrian Tchaikovsky
“All things die,' she told him. Such a truism, it was the trite utterance of any street-corner philosopher, but coming from Inaspe Raimm it sounded different. 'All things reach the end of their journey, be they trees, insects, people or even principalities. All things die so that others may take their place. To die is no tragedy. The tragedy is dying with a purpose unfulfilled.”
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Salute the Dark

Kabelo A. Mabona
“Life is built on our daily utterances. Never declare any wickedness of some sort upon your life, words create a reality.”
Kabelo Mabona

“Listen to taciturnity. It has too much to utterance.”
Prof.Salam Al Shereida

Michel de Certeau
“On the elementary level it has in effect a threefold “utteringâ€� function: it is a process of appropriation of the topographic system by the pedestrian (just as the speaker appropriates and assumes language); it is a spatial realization of the site (just as the act of speaking is a sonic realization of language); lastly, it implies relationships among distinct positions, i.e. pragmatic “contractsâ€� in the form of movements (just as verbal utterance is “allocutionâ€�, “places the othersâ€� before the speaker, and sets up contracts between fellow speakers. A first definition of walking thus seems to be a space of uttering.”
Michel de Certeau