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Quotes About Oral

First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.
~ Isobelle Carmody
My grandmother was not a great storyteller.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.
~ Rodney Crowell
I come from a long line of storytellers.
~ John Kani
I come from a family of storytellers.
~ Charlie McDowell
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
~ Terri Windling
I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.
~ Dianne Reeves
To conclude, in this chapter we have seen the characteristics of managing, as they were then and remain now: the pace, brevity, variety, fragmentation; the interruptions; the orientation to action; the oral aspect of the information; the lateral nature of much of the communication; and the tricky problem of exercising control without quite being in control.
~ Henry Mintzberg
In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.
~ Sufjan Stevens
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
~ James Thurber
Information could be spread far more widely, more accurately, and in more detail by writing than it could be transmitted by mouth.
~ Jared Diamond
Not a trace of its use for literature has survived. The Iliad and Odyssey were composed and transmitted by nonliterate bards for nonliterate listeners, and not committed to writing until the development of the Greek alphabet hundreds of years later.
~ Jared Diamond
The oil acts like a cleanser. When you put it in your mouth and work it around your teeth and gums it 'pulls' out bacteria and other debris.
~ Bruce Fife
I don't know how anyone can work on people's mouths all day long. That disgusts me. I'd rather work on the other end than work on mouths.
~ Unknown
For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.
~ Vermin Supreme
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
~ Marianne Williamson
I have been given something really, really special and really unique, and it is not just in and of itself having learned from my father, who is the greatest exponent of this musical style. But it is an oral tradition that is only generally passed on in that manner, and so without the people who continue to... learn it and perform it, it dies.
~ Anoushka Shankar
The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.
~ Hyman G. Rickover
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.
~ Arthur Miller
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.
~ Unknown
and oral narcotics addicts tend to operate on an extremely rigid physical schedule of need and satisfaction, and Gately is at this moment firmly in the need part of the schedule;
~ David Foster Wallace
Chandler Foss is flossing his teeth
~ David Foster Wallace