Quotes About Verbal

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

A witty saying proves nothing.

When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Parece que en esto radicaría la supuesta magia que obra un buen poema: ideas, recuerdos y todos los detalles de un escenario presente y la acción que lo ocupa tienen igual rango y el mismo peso; infundido de una fuerza verbal animadora (pero vaga), el mundo irradia particularidad.

Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in verbal form the sins and crimes of their past lives. Toast was a ritual item devoured by fetishists in the belief that it would enhance their kinetic and sexual powers. Toast cannot be explained by any rational means. Toast is me. I am toast.

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)

Think about it: whether your child is tiny or college-age or anywhere in between, verbal put-downs are a subtle but very real form of child abuse.

You know, we could play a game. We meet and I start talking, and slap damn, you kill me when I take a verbal turn you don't like.

His mind was full of the verbal instruments by which he could bring about his own despair.

We also try not to harm others verbally, seeing that our speech has tremendous power. Words do not just leave our mouths and disappear; they have great effects in this world.

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.

Jefferson reflected, "I think of her (a college infatuation) perhaps too much for my peace of mind. " Nevertheless, he was robbed of his considerable verbal powers when he got the chance to speak to the object of his affections.

But physical aggression is often replaced by verbal abuse, and verbal insults seldom lead to physical aggression.

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

The vital influences are to be detected not in the formal documents compiled by rulers, ministers, and generals but in their marginal notes and verbal asides. Here are revealed their instinctive prejudices, lack of interest in truth for its own sake, and indifference to the exactness of statement and reception which is a safeguard against dangerous misunderstanding. I

It is the mistaken idea that if I reward mediocrity, I will curtail the person's aspirations to be better. That is a commonly held myth that keeps some parents from verbally affirming children. Of course, it's untrue.

For males, verbal self-advertisement appears to be a fairly constant function of speech, while for females, it may be an occasional function, more limited to one-to-one conversations with desired mates.