Verbal Quotes

264 Verbal quotes by 223 unique authors

Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of… — Derek Hough
With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air. — Robert Ringer
An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing… — Betty Edwards
To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication… — Friedrich Frobel
Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but… — Oliver Gaspirtz
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal… — Allen Tate
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be… — Lewis Fry Richardson
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a… — Adrienne Rich
We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up… — George W. Bush
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to… — David Lehman
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary. — George Bernard Shaw
It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing… — Robin Olds
I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal,… — Eugene H. Peterson
Education is education, be it verbal or written. — Aamir Khan
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but… — Rollo May
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. — S I Hayakawa
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was… — Thomas Sowell
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of… — Aldous Huxley
As I say so often, “Observe and wait.” Sometimes you may even find out that what you believed the infant wanted was only your assumption.… — Magda Gerber
Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and… — Gloria Steinem
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others. — William Hazlitt
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be… — Gary Saul Morson
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for… — Walt Whitman
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling… — Northrop Frye
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. — Gary Lucas

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