Verbal Quotes

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

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 to do with it.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.

I love being verbal in films.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

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, birds, etc.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.