Quotes About Oral

Like virtually all schools for the deaf at that time, the Indiana State School emphasized oral skills: speaking and lipreading.

There was no written record of the earliest chants. They were so old, more than a millenium, that they predated written music.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes on in you without your having to do anything about it). . .

NO NOTES. This was truly an oral event. Storytellers didn't read their stories; they told them, which allowed for eye contact.

If you're bored tonight why don't you write down everything that comes to mind when you hear the word toothpaste?

Maimonides therefore undertook to compile a complete code, which would contain, in the language and style of the Mishnah, and without discussion, the whole of the Written and the Oral Law, all the precepts recorded in the Talmud, Sifra, Sifre and Tosefta, and the decisions of the Geonim.

ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

He committed the state to a permanent reciprocal relationship. It hardly matters what the legal papers say because in an oral relationship the legal relationship is oral. That is why the Supreme Court so often decides for the Aboriginal side.

The breeze smelled like the breath of an old man with bad teeth.

One could see that the ideas which the mediaeval artist and the mediaeval peasant (who had survived to cook for us in the nineteenth century) had of classical and of early Christian history, ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

To be evangelism, the gospel must be clearly communicated, whether in written or oral form.

If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.

Enquanto ouvir estes relatos você se guarde quieto. O silêncio é que fabrica as janelas por onde o mundo se transparenta. Não escreva, deixe esse caderno no chão. Se comporte como água no vidro. Quem é gota sempre pinge, quem é cacimbo se evapora. Neste asilo, o senhor se aumente de muita orelha. É que aqui vivemos muito oralmente.

To a degree that would be astonishing in the United States, Vietnamese in all walks of life could recite long passages from poems, recount folktales and legends, and discuss novels thirty years old as if the characters lived next door.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

We cannot go back to the lost oral world, any more than we can turn the clock back to a time before the clock existed. 'Writing and print and the computer,' writes Walter Ong, 'are all ways of technologizing the word'; and once technologized, the word cannot be de-technologized.

But intellectually, our ancestors' oral culture was in many ways a shallower one than our own.

immortality is that's the telling of stories in the remember.

There are no new tales, but we shall always be ready to listen to a new telling of the old ones.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

No story can move a thousand miles by word of mouth and keep its shape.

What does a monster eat after he's had his teeth out? The dentist.

It was only after oral tales became written orthodoxies that some people were labeled "pagans" and "heretics" and burned at the stake for unorthodox views. The greatest strength media ecology possesses is its ability to generate unorthodox views. Media ecology makes a better "Trojan horse" than a golden bull.