Verbal Quotes

264 Verbal quotes by 223 unique authors

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and… — Frederick Lenz
If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those… — Maximus the Confessor
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the… — Leslie Fiedler
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The… — James Fenton
If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach. — Richard Rohr
Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh. — Fede Alvarez
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent. — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly.… — Amy Hempel
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real… — Henry Hazlitt
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that… — Richard Rosen
God doesn't need verbal language for communication. — Mary C. Neal
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction... — Abraham Maslow
No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth… — Douglas Hofstadter
It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more… — Douglas Hofstadter
Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her… — Tina Fey
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious intuitive… — John Paul Caponigro
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in… — William Hazlitt
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. — Samuel Goldwyn
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and… — Alan Greenspan
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. — Rita Dove
Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key. — Henry Van Dyke

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