Quotes About Verbal

We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

if human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working

If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

I'm not very good at telling things. I mean if I write things, I get them perfectly clear, but if I talk, it always sounds the most frightful muddle.

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That's the three ways to beat a man.

I could use a Chris Matthews-level speech writer to script everything I say. That would be good.

The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants them to be different from what they were yesterday, no matter what else he's serving, he's always serving meaninglessness.

A story is nothing more than a reproduction of the order of the world on a purely verbal scale. A replica of life, if life consisted of words. But life does not consist just of words. Unfortunately, it is also made up of bodies or, in other words, of disease, pain and death.

There was no spoken testimony, no verbal deposition, no swearing upon holy books, for words alone could lie. Decision and action, repeated over time, did not.

A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000.

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn't make verbal threats were the most dangerous.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.