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111 Oral quotes by 98 unique authors

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. — Michael K. Simpson
A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there.… — David Abram
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to… — David Antin
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends… — David Abram
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An… — Samuel Johnson
How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it. — John B. Keane
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no… — Richard Whately
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than… — Saul Williams
In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's lawyers have stated… — Dennis Miller
As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to… — David Abram
Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down. — Stewart Francis
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of… — Paule Marshall
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton
The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI...(NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation...This kind… — Hans Alfred Nieper
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo… — Stephen King
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in… — Spencer Bachus
Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest… — Erskine Caldwell
Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless. — Benjamin Zephaniah
Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly… — Ashley Kahn
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change.… — Maxine Hong Kingston
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing… — Ron Rash
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather… — James Laughlin
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman

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