Verbal Quotes

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.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

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

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.

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.

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

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

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 morality but to those of another.

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.

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