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Quotes About Verbal

I shouldn't have complained, right? I mean, doesn't every girl want a handsome rescuer to sweep in when she's in a pinch? So what if she could've handled the whole thing on her own and the handsome rescuer in question didn't have the verbal acuity she was hoping for? A gal can't afford to be too picky these days, can she?
~ Hajime Kanzaka
That's politics, power: it's all verbal, a continuous blizzard of words. But it's not just speaking, it's making statements. It's action; it's doing something without doing anything.
~ Harry Mulisch
It is easy to make a sales presentation but not have the courage to ask for the order. Jesus always asked for the order. He enrolled his team. He asked them publicly for a verbal contract. "I will do these things. Will you be on my team?" Then he waited for the answer.
~ Laurie Beth Jones
To make the most of every encounter, personalize your verbal resume with just as much care as you would your written curriculum vitae. Instead of having one answer to the omnipresent 'What do you do?' prepare a dozen or so variations, depending on who's asking. For optimum networking, every time someone asks about your job, give a calculated oral resume in a nutshell. Before you submit your answer, consider what possible interest the asker could have in you and your work.
~ Leil Lowndes
The shnorrer was no fool, please note, no simpleton. He often had read a good deal, could quote from the Talmud, and was quick on the verbal draw. Shnorrers were "regulars" in the synagogue and, between prayers, took part in long discussions of theology with their benefactors. The status points involved here are too delicate for Newtonian physics, or Parsonian sociology,* to handle. (Certain Hindu and Oriental groups recognize the beggar in the same way.)
~ Leo Rosten
Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
The left brain was analytical and verbal, while the right brain was intuitive and "preferred" pictures to words.
~ Dan Brown
The followers of Arius (born c. 250) believed that Christ, being the most perfect creature in the material world, had been adopted by God as a son. And the view had been spread by Arius' popular poetic work, Thalia (Banquet), which led to Arius' condemnation by the bishops as a heretic, and his exile from his post as priest in Alexandria. Constantine betrayed his own theological innocence when he called this dispute a fight over trifling and foolish verbal differences.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
~ William Dean Howells
Lady,' Rydell said carefully, 'I think you're crazier than a sack full of assholes.' Her eyebrows shot up. 'There,' she said. 'There what?' 'Color, Mr. Rydell. Fire. The brooding verbal polychromes of an almost unthinkably advanced decay.
~ William Gibson
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
~ William James
I thought of a bad pun: "I'm going from bad to Hearst.
~ William L. Shirer
Anyway we told him Liza'd do the physical part of sex, I'd do the verbal. Together we incarnated the cyborgian split projected on all females by this culture
~ Chris Kraus
Gjuha është një putanë, me të cilën kushdo mund të abuzojë si të ketë dëshirë.
~ Christine Grän
When you talk, your face has more moves than Lebron James.
~ Christine Kenneally
Anybody can act violently--there is nothing to it, but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
~ Winston Churchill
If only he had a way with words he
~ Unknown
I had to get back to work... NBC has me under contract; the baby and I only have a verbal agreement.
~ Tina Fey
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk.
~ Carrie Preston
I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.
~ Tom Glazer
Five is a Four letter word.
~ Unknown
And even before your toddler is fully verbal, going over the day is also a wonderful idea, because it helps a child process her fears.
~ Tracy Hogg