Quotes About Verbal

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

actually just has a born tech-science wienie's congenital impatience with the referential murkiness and inelegance of verbal systems.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

leaves out verbs and articles and pronouns and prepositions, in what those who know autism call "telegraphic speech.

this is a feast of words.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Speaking, he addressed her with winged words.

Like Pinter and Orton, the writer, Clive Exton, catches the poetry of modern everyday speech, which, whether we like it or not, includes four-letter words used as verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives. But, God, is it difficult to learn.

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

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

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They're also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy - in fact, that's where I got the list.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know... and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.

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

We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal ideal.