Spoken Quotes (3 quotes)
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
In Going Postal (2004, 2009), 101.
Our methods of communication with our fellow men take many forms. We share with other animals the ability to transmit information by such diverse means as the posture of our bodies, by the movements of our eyes, head, arms, and hands, and by our utterances of non-specific sounds. But we go far beyond any other species on earth in that we have evolved sophisticated forms of pictorial representation, elaborate spoken and written languages, ingenious methods of recording music and language on discs, on magnetic tape and in a variety of other kinds of code.
As quoted in epigraph before title page in John Wolfenden, Hermann Bondi, et al., The Languages of Science: A Survey of Techniques of Communication (1963), i.
Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience, and written words are the symbols of spoken words.
In De Interpretatione, translated by E.M. Edghill in On Interpretation, Chap. 1, second sentence.