Verbal Quotes

264 Verbal quotes by 223 unique authors

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality. — Eugene H. Peterson
Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were… — Maria V. Snyder
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths… — Roberto Bolano
The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and… — David Ogilvy
We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege — Adrienne Rich
Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures… — Gail Carriger
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. — William James
Kylie bit down on her lip. Burnett took a step forward. He squared his shoulders, empathy filling his eyes. He took a deep, apparent heartfelt… — C.C. Hunter
Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as… — Stefan Molyneux
Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in… — Margaret Atwood
Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he… — Neal Shusterman
Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative. — Sherry Argov
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality.… — Charles R. Swindoll
Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication… — Unknown Author
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that… — Judith Lynne Hanna
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary. — Aberjhani
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a… — Chip Kidd
I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought ,in my previous career in a… — Jessica Clark
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. — Marya Mannes
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not… — Robert Wilson
From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal… — David Perlmutter
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association. — Albert Murray
Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of… — Dominique Moceanu
There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal… — Mark Shand

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