Verbal Quotes
264 quotes by 233 authors
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
— Rowan Atkinson
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually…
— Julie Burchill
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience…
— John Dewey
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I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement.
— Tina Fey
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Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment…
— Jacques Ellul
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic…
— Fritjof Capra
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct…
— John von Neumann
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This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a…
— Anthony Burgess
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Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
— Phil Donahue
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Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.
— Derek A. Cuthbert
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I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems…
— Theodore Roethke
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Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per…
— Jane Goodall
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
— David Foster Wallace
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Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a…
— Adrienne Rich
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