Quotes About Verbal

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. —

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.

The problem is, when things go verbal, you drop out the detail.

The monkey said, "Bad. Bad, shitty bad.

Her tongue could kill at twenty paces.

have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Había pasado quince horas seguidas hablando y no podía pronunciar una palabra más.

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

Of course, it is painful when your partner verbally attacks you. Recognize that by responding in kind, you are almost guaranteeing more volleys in your direction, the negative cycle will continue, and you will find no peace.

Avoid mannerisms in attributions. People say things; they don't wheeze, gasp, sigh, laugh, grunt, snort, reply, retort, exclaim, or declare them.

The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

I've never been short of words. I think my mum will tell you that. I think I've known that since primary school.

English is a very expressive language.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

The communication is made only by 7% from the verbal part, the pure content, the remaining 93% is divided between non-verbal (55%), that is the way we gesture and the postures that we assume in front of a person during the communication and para-verbal (38%), ie the way in which we use the voice.

Our God is a language-using God; he has spoken literal truth to humankind.41 And if God created people for the purpose of fellowship with him, it is fair to assume that he would have created them with the capacity both to comprehend God's literal truth coming to them ab extra and in turn to respond verbally with no loss or distortion of the truth in the verbal interchange (this capacity surely being an aspect of humanity's image-bearing character).

Ninety percent of all verbal expression has no filmic equivalent. "He's been sitting there for a long time" can't be photographed.

Words are the verbal embodiment of power. By filling your mind with words of hope, you become hopeful. By filling your mind with words of kindness, you become kind. By filling your mind with words of courage, you become courageous. Words have power.

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions.

de abrir esta Puerta en el Muro? La respuesta, a todos los efectos prácticos, es Ninguno. En un mundo donde la educación es predominantemente verbal, las personas muy cultas hallan poco menos que imposible dedicar una seria atención a lo que no sea palabras y nociones.

There are many words for push, take, shove, carry, load, and no words for love, or happiness, or the sounds which birds make in the morning.

Miss Taylor smiled. "I shall assume that the verb in that sentence you've just uttered is implied, and that the phrase that you had in mind was That doesn't include…which would, of course, justify the use of the accusative me, rather than the nominative I. I assume that.