Verbal Quotes

264 Verbal quotes by 223 unique authors

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,… — Unknown Author
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. — Aristotle
Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the… — Edward Abbey
I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of… — B.F. Skinner
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own… — Herbert Marcuse
Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it is… — Steven Pinker
I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through… — Gautama Buddha
Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and… — Julia Serano
Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham. — Unknown Author
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. — Cary Cooper
Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination… — Beverly Engel
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake… — Joost Meerloo
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded… — Stanley Kubrick
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes,… — Sergei Eisenstein
Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has… — Susan Hill
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal — William H. Gass
There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create… — Moshe Feldenkrais
... sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up… — John Scofield
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. — Peggy Noonan
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If… — Alfred Korzybski
The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast. — Anabel Jensen
An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument. — John B. S. Haldane
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose… — Francis Schaeffer

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