Quotes About Oral

There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told.

It's also vital to limit the amount of sugary foods your baby eats, especially drinks on which she may suck for a long time.

When it was his turn to talk, he told stories. He told me ones I knew, old stories, and he told me old-sounding ones I had never heard.

Oral traditions remain a most important way of developing trust, sharing information, strategies, advice, contacts, and ideas

There are numerous oral stories which tell of what it means, what it feels like, to be present while your history is erased before your eyes, dismissed as irrelevant, ignored or rendered as the lunatic ravings of drunken old people

The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.

Of course he's always know that the Odyssey and the Illiad are stories that were passed on orally long before Homer - or whoever it was - wrote them down. But never before has the connection between space, time, and words revealed itself so clearly as at this moment. The bad drop of the desert shows it off in sharp relief, but really it's always just the same all over the world: without memory, man is nothing more than a bit of flesh on the planet's surface.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.

most people in England had no access to a dentist

Tell them stories

L]ook, of course I know you and your family have beliefs,' began Howard uneasily, as if 'beliefs' were a kind of condition, like oral herpes.

The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there.

But in life there is only one love. So all discussions of feelings, written or oral, can be summed up by these two questions: Is it a passion? Is it love?

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

I am a victim of oral cancer, a victim of cigarette smoking.

For a teller of tales will never die, but will live on in stories - for as long as there are folk to listen.

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

When a doctor is prescribing a lethal concoction to be taken orally, the drugs are best taken in a dissolved liquid, which can be downed quickly. The occasional delayed-action death is almost always caused by the patient falling asleep before taking enough.

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

What was paramount in the apostles' earliest motives was oral proclamation of the gospel. They wanted to disseminate the word as quickly as possible.

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.