Verbal Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I love being verbal in films.

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

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.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

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

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.