Verbal Quotes
264 Verbal quotes by 223 unique authors
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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
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.
— Unknown Author
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These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
— Cary Cooper
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
— William H. Gass
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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
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... 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
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Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
— Peggy Noonan
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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
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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
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Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.
— Anabel Jensen
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An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.
— John B. S. Haldane
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Verbal Quotes
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