Top 100 Quotes About Aloud
#1. Reading aloud is different from just following sentences with your eyes. Something quite unexpected wells up in your mind, a kind of indefinable resonance that I find impossible to resist.
Haruki Murakami
#2. I can't share your love of God. But I do understand your need to give your life to him. Each of us has within us something that just won't be denied. Something to which we are driven even though it makes us scream aloud to die.
Colleen McCullough
#3. Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.
Maureen Daly
#4. He had imagined he wanted a hundred things; a thousand. But really, even though he had not spoken his answer aloud, he found he only wanted one.
- I want this to end -
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#5. She whispers it aloud, 'lorelei.' the sound makes her ache, makes the word even more beautiful, even more real.
Mary E. Pearson
#6. It's amazing how many people think a conversation is little more than reading their resume aloud.
Marshall Thornton
#7. Papa would say a word and the girl would have to spell it aloud and then paint it on the wall, as long as she got it right. After a month, the wall was recoated. A fresh cement page.
Markus Zusak
#8. She's amazing. No ... she's perfect. Everything about her is fucking perfect," I said aloud. "I don't just love her, she owns me. Completely. I'd do anything for her.
Abbi Glines
#9. The glass-blower's cat is bompstable, said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#10. The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.
Lili'uokalani
#11. Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#12. Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness - if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.
Jane Austen
#13. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#14. I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!
Monique Roffey
#15. If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
Karen Joy Fowler
#16. And at last he began prancing up and down and rubbing his hands, and humming and murmuring, and putting his fist to his mouth blew a march on it as on a trumpet, and even uttered aloud a few encouraging words and nicknames addressed to himself, such as "bulldog" and "little cockerel.
Nikolai Gogol
#17. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
#18. Adrian met my eyes for a long moment, saying nothing aloud yet somehow conveying a million messages.
Richelle Mead
#19. A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
Esther Freud
#20. During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun
setting in the distance, it was
somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just
kept moving toward that
horizon.
Sarah Dessen
#21. Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.
Brian Eno
#22. Nick almost breaks a full smile when the men around him laugh aloud. "I don't kiss on the cheek." He said smoothly giving her the opportunity to end it there, but instead, she drags the bride over to him and asks again.
Jennifer Loren
#23. There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly.
Josh Lanyon
#24. I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to an audience because there's a cadence and a beat. There's a music to the language that's very important to me.
T.C. Boyle
#25. Artemis turned and stared at his friend with the blue eyes. Holly was staring back, and she was smiling.
"I remember," she said aloud. "You saved me."
Artemis smiled back. "It never happened," he said.
Eoin Colfer
#26. she lived her life with her fingers in her ears, as though the truth would not exist if she never heard the words spoken aloud.
Allen Eskens
#27. In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.
William Greider
#30. It doesn't matter how simple your name is; it's always a surprise to hear it spoken aloud by someone new, how the specific arrangement of syllables sounds coming out of their mouth.
Katie Heaney
#31. There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.
Victoria Alexander
#32. Oh my God, I can't believe I actually said that out aloud.
Neither could he. The fact that she saw him as so sexually appealing was enough of a surprise to render him speechless. He was numb. Even the dissonance cut off - likely reading his reaction as one of complete unemotionality.
Nalini Singh
#33. the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children were set out in the woods by their parents, fear walked hand in hand with experience, a wish spoken aloud could make it so. I
Alice Hoffman
#34. The Bible says, "Seek, and ye shall find," he thought. And said aloud to the vibrant air, "But there's no guarantee about what you'll find, is there?
Diana Gabaldon
#35. Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
Ernest Hemingway,
#36. In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#37. To speak a dream aloud is to cast a magic spell.
Alice Bag
#38. An elderly black man stepped forward and prayed aloud for Lincoln's safety. Much to Coffin's surprise, the President "lifted his own hat from his head and bowed to the old man."24
Noah Andre Trudeau
#39. What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [ ... ] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.
Rachel Vincent
#40. I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses.
Anna Quindlen
#41. Evans, Evans!" He Cried.
Mrs. Smith was talking aloud to himself, Agnes the servant girl cries to Mrs. Filmer in the kitchen. "Evans, Evans" he had said as she brought in the tray. She jumped, she did. She scuttled downstairs.
Virginia Woolf
#42. Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
Benjamin Franklin
#43. This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don't drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.
Natalie Goldberg
#44. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
Maya Angelou
#45. As the conjugal act cannot be spoken of aloud for reasons both sacred and profane, the ritual of the pipe was, for the pair of them, a holy ritual that was unspeakable and mortified, just as it was ecstatic and divine: its sacredness lay in its very profanity, and its profanity, in its sacred form.
Eleanor Catton
#47. 'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.
Scott Turow
#48. No exclusive," I said aloud, watching Al for his opinion and seeing him shake his head and hold his hands out in a "bigger" gesture. He didn't even know how large the offer was, and he thought I could get one bigger.
Kim Harrison
#49. Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.
Mem Fox
#50. No dead people beyond this door,' " he read aloud from beyond the door. " 'And, yes, if you suddenly have the ability to walk through walls, you're dead. You're not lying somewhere in a drainage ditch waiting to wake up. Get over it, and stay the hell out of my bathroom.
Darynda Jones
#51. Her words, her jumbled, mad thoughts tamed or simply broken, made language, and she took another drag off the Lucky, exhaled, and read the last sentence aloud.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#52. Mr. Hardie had little patience with that sort of conversation."Ye're born, ye suffer, and ye die. What made ye think ye deserved different?" he wondered aloud when the deacon's gentle answers failed to quiet them.
Charlotte Rogan
#53. I'm used to people talking, saying words aloud to prove they know more than me, that they're better than me. But they're just words. Syllables strung together between breaths to fill uncomfortable silences.
Meaningless words.
Katie McGarry
#54. He said it aloud, because there was no reason to be silent. "I am - undone. She has undone me."
And his hand closed around the glass slipper.
Eloisa James
#55. He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.
William Shakespeare
#56. Best if you think of this room as a minefield. Tread carefully or get exploded, she advised Jared, and then said aloud, Hideous brats! We have a guest. Conceal evidence of your crimes.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#57. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
Beverly Cleary
#58. A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.
William Hazlitt
#59. When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how about the last time a youth pastor subverted his or her "talk" through satire or parable rather than proof texting the six main points? Yet
Sarah Arthur
#60. At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.
Sigurd F. Olson
#61. But Lord! once one began mouthing words
aloud, how silly they sounded!
Virginia Woolf
#62. Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?
James Whistler
#63. His father read aloud, quietly, his voice steady and gentle, while he pressed a hand to Liam's delicate back, supporting his position.
...
She realized Dragos was reading the quarterly profit percentages from a stockholders' report.
Thea Harrison
#64. Nothing from the summer carries more lasting allure for me than the memory of sitting with Ruth on the bank of a stream on campus, taking turns reading aloud from the books we held on our laps, while the wind wet leaves gossiping in the old trees above us and the creek rustled in its stony bed.
Scott Russell Sanders
#65. How much easier it would have been if he and Sandy could have fought: a skirmish in the night, some harsh words, some measure of the truth actually spoken aloud.
Anthony Doerr
#66. History is amoral: events occurred. But memory is moral; what we consciously remember is what our conscience remembers. History is the Totenbuch, The Book of the Dead, kept by the administrators of the camps. Memory is the Memorbucher, the names of those to be mourned, read aloud in the synagogue.
Anne Michaels
#67. I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.
Isabel Burton
#68. The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.
Marcel Theroux
#69. For I thought there was a relation between God and the soul as yet unknown. On this theme the mind can reason to a point, a dead, impassable wall; arrived there, all that remains is to stand and cry aloud for help.
Lew Wallace
#70. I forgot that little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has someday to cry aloud on the housetops.
Oscar Wilde
#71. Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud ...
Yvor Winters
#72. They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things ... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
Emile Zola
#73. And he set to rhyme his ale-measures,
And he sang aloud his laws,
Because of the joy of giants,
The joy without a cause.
G.K. Chesterton
#74. Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Garson Kanin
#75. The act of love ... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
Albert Camus
#76. Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
#77. If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Voltaire
#78. Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
Alberto Manguel
#79. Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#80. I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
Jane Yolen
#81. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
William Ernest Henley
#82. For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.
Ken Weber
#83. World history showed us many times that in any country whenever a dog ascended the throne of kingdom, it did nothing but to bark aloud and bite the people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. Whoa, Sam Gamgee!' he said aloud. 'Your legs are too short, so use your head.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#85. There is great power in our words, because they
are thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.
Molly Friedenfeld
#86. She felt really alone now. But here's the thing- suddenly she felt as though she belonged inside the aloneness, and that feeling made her whisper aloud, "I never have before. I've never felt at home with myself.
Hale Shannon
#87. I listened intently. He chose to skim past the parts that would put his ridiculous worries to rest, and I chose to snatch the book from his hand and read those parts aloud to him.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#89. She almost thought she'd said the words aloud, but she hadn't. They remained trapped in her head, but not because they were barricaded by plaques and tangles. She just couldn't say them aloud
Lisa Genova
#91. We all have goals and dreams. Say them aloud to yourself; if they don't sound slightly impossible then they aren't set high enough.
Noel DeJesus
#92. Words are not good for the secret meaning; everything always becomes a little bit different the moment one speaks it aloud, a bit falsified, a bit foolish - yes, and this too is also very good and pleases me greatly: that one person's treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to others.
Hermann Hesse
#93. Man
is a bird full of mud,
I say aloud.
And death looks on with a casual eye
and scratches his anus.
Anne Sexton
#94. We can shape-shift whenever we like."
She made a face. "You mean all those hideous stories are true? Rats and bats and slimy worm things?"
"Now, why would I want to be a slimy worm thing?" He was openly laughing. The sound startled him; he couldn't remember laughing aloud.
Christine Feehan
#95. While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear
Jon Krakauer
#96. I should've been a nun, he says, half aloud, as his feet leave the ledge.
Dale McGowan
#97. The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery."
Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.
Tessa Dare
#98. Do you prefer to be called Richard or Dick?"
"Ric."
"Dick? I'll make a note of that on your file." I spoke aloud as I wrote. "Patient prefers to be called Dick.
Zathyn Priest
#99. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William T. Sherman
#100. Can't you stop by my tent on your way to the hospital and punch one of them in the nose for me?" he speculated aloud. "I've got four of them, and they're going to crowd me out of my tent altogether." "You know, something like that once happened to my whole tribe," Chief White Halfoat remarked
Joseph Heller
