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Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith. -- Franz Liszt
The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental. -- Charles Thomas Newton
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology. -- Bryan Sykes
I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track. -- Lewis Black
Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother. -- Billy Graham
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to. -- Niall Ferguson
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record. -- Patricia Leavy
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. -- Robert H. Schuller
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand. -- Studs Terkel
We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet in "Mad World: An Oral History of the New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s -- Lori Majewski
Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented. -- Nana Awere Damoah
What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences. -- Yann Martel
I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush. -- Sherri Shepherd
I love oral hygiene. -- Eden Sher
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. -- David Antin
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. -- N. Scott Momaday
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. -- Huston Smith
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well. -- Khaled Hosseini
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please. -- Robert Chambers
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. -- Louis Nizer
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. -- James Thurber
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual. -- Steven Pinker
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. -- Spencer Bachus
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read. -- James Fenton
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. -- Johann Most
I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health. -- Sherri Shepherd
There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information. -- August Wilson
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living. -- Ishmael Beah
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am. -- Steven Wright
All history was at first oral. -- Samuel Johnson
My morals went when the president got oral. -- Eminem
The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures. -- Marshall McLuhan
Reciprocating oral sex is, in general, a very good idea! -- Mallory Ortberg
The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions. -- Martin Lindstrom
My personal feeling is that oral sex is against nature. -- Pat Robertson
You know the worst thing about oral sex ? The view. -- Maureen Lipman
I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South, -- Horton Foote
We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady. -- Kevin Smith
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history. -- Neal Stephenson
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. -- Marshall McLuhan
The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati. -- Marshall McLuhan
To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong -- The Talmud
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She was giving me oral sex, and she got carried away . . . So I choked her. -- Arthur Shawcross
Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down. -- Stewart Francis
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. -- James Fenton
Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. -- Margaret Atwood
5% of women have true multiple orgasms only through intercourse and these women typically find oral sex uncomfortable. -- Gail Saltz
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Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy. -- Marilyn Manson
Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless. -- Benjamin Zephaniah
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. -- George Plimpton
Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets. -- Dale Spender
First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time. -- Isobelle Carmody
How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it. -- John B. Keane
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa. -- Frank Zappa
While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. -- Michael K. Simpson
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. -- Robert Fitzgerald
What I've learned is that love is made up of three ingredients: consideration, spontaneity, and [whispers] oral sex for guys and women. -- Damien Lemon
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels. -- Joseph Jacobs
Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities. -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The world would be a healthier place if oral contraceptives were available in every corner store and cigarettes were limited to prescription use. -- Malcolm Potts
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. -- David Antin
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard. -- Arthur Miller
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No. -- Woody Allen
Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner. -- Marianne Williamson
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. -- Hyman Rickover
When I am king, I will revise the sexual bases system so that getting to first base will include oral sex and sodomy! -- Adam Carolla
An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles. -- Slash
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West. -- Harold Innis
For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate. -- Ami Bera
Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter -- Andre Benjamin
What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer. -- Gail Carriger
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is. -- Barbara Bush
What was said about him, what the females needed to believe about him, was just oral masturbation for mouths that needed to be otherwise occupied. -- J.R. Ward
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. -- David Antin
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures. -- Marshall McLuhan
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover
If I have sex, I know my quarterly estimated taxes must be due. And if it's oral sex, I know it's time to renew my driver's license. -- Ray Romano
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis. -- Alan Garner
The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem. -- Jerry Garcia
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker. -- Bharati Mukherjee
The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows. -- Rivers Cuomo
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. -- David Antin
Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers. -- James H. Billington
Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care. -- Michael K. Simpson
I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit. -- Chath Piersath
Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story. -- Erskine Caldwell
In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life. -- Lynda Barry
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar. -- Damien Chazelle
As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to that which we have not experienced personally. -- Patricia Leavy
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene. -- Bill Bryson
My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating. -- Charlemagne Palestine
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud. -- Frank Delaney
One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable. -- Alix Kates Shulman
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true. -- Simon Greenleaf
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness. -- George Steiner
A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'. -- Woody Allen
The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex (which, since it was a Yale Daily News poll, meant kissing). -- Paul Rudnick
We no longer know each other. Hell, I barely know myself these days. I brush my teeth and look in the mirror and think, Who is this guy taking care of my oral hygiene? -- Jarod Kintz
it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth. -- Santha Rama Rau
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things -- Roland Barthes
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