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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. -- Fran Lebowitz
Verbal arguments should always be suspect. -- Lee Spetner
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians. -- Virgil Thomson
Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble. -- Nora Ephron
Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith. -- Alexander Gardner
There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate. -- Leo Buscaglia
Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town. -- Joseph Conrad
As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36) -- Jon Stewart
Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce... -- Damian Marley
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. -- W. Clement Stone
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. -- W. H. Auden
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key. -- Henry Van Dyke
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. -- Marissa Mayer
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. -- Marya Mannes
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. -- Phil Donahue
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. -- W. H. Auden
Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'. -- Brenda Laurel
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. -- Gary Lucas
I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal. -- Matthew Morrison
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. -- George Orwell
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. -- Albert Murray
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression. -- Rowan Atkinson
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Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain. -- Michael Gurian
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. -- Ian Hislop
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. -- Alan Greenspan
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening. -- Roz Chast
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. -- Audre Lorde
For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus. -- Max Lucado
Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. -- Rick Pitino
When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.' -- Mike Vogel
A compliment is verbal sunshine -- Robert Orben
A compliment is verbal sunshine. -- Robert Orben
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal -- William H. Gass
Women have a greater verbal capacity. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
I love being verbal in films. -- Sylvester Stallone
My mind gets into a verbal mode. -- Tom Stoppard
God doesn't need verbal language for communication. -- Mary C. Neal
Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy. -- Chris Rock
Education is education, be it verbal or written. -- Aamir Khan
To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal. -- Peter Schjeldahl
Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels. -- Joseph Michelli
Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer. -- Gene Black
Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone. -- Sai Baba
A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast. -- Anabel Jensen
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. -- William Shakespeare
A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick. -- Chris Bliss
An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument. -- John B. S. Haldane
In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic. -- Ravi Zacharias
Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love -- Laurie Faria Stolarz
Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham. -- Sadat X
Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes. -- Gail Carriger
I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal. -- Reese Witherspoon
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness. -- Billy Collins
The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal. -- Mirra Komarovsky
When you speak and affirm, you are creating a verbal contract with yourself. -- Bryant McGill
To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness. -- Dejan Stojanovic
I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. -- Alia Shawkat
My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light. -- Valeria Lukyanova
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Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you? -- Ilona Andrews
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young. -- Barbara Mertz
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. -- Terence McKenna
Never use the word "impossible" seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication. -- John Dewey
Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition. -- Derek A. Cuthbert
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. -- Marya Mannes
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. -- Aristotle
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways. -- Viggo Mortensen
A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . . -- Suzanne Collins
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Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody. -- Alain Juppe
If you want to create vital, long-lasting love, you must become a master of verbal & nonverbal appreciation -- Gay Hendricks
Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.. -- Erich Fromm
You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning. -- Robert Anton Wilson
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin. -- B. F. Skinner
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. -- Marianne Moore
R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages. -- John Stoker
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. -- S. I. Hayakawa
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air. -- Robert Ringer
...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation! -- Gail Carriger
With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything. -- John McPhee
Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow. -- Shannon L. Alder
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. -- Peggy Noonan
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary. -- Aberjhani
Facebook, instagram - I prefer visual communication better than verbal. But I read all the comments, answering too. -- Verka Serduchka
Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey. -- Action Bronson
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. -- Cary Cooper
Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out. -- Millard Fuller
If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach. -- Richard Rohr
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams. -- Hanna Rosin
We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege -- Adrienne Rich
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. -- William James
Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the "imagetext" incarnate -- W. J. T. Mitchell
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death. -- Northrop Frye
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction... -- Abraham Maslow
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths"¦ -- Roberto Bolano
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. -- Annie Leibovitz
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. -- Robert Genn
Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative. -- Sherry Argov
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working. -- Sean Lennon
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. -- Dorothy Nevill
Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture. -- Marty Sklar
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary. -- George Bernard Shaw
Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand. -- William S. Burroughs
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle. -- W. H. Auden
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery. -- Shirley Manson
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. -- Rita Dove
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description. -- Alexander Stoddart
Celebrate your victories! Be verbal about it. Haters will say you're bragging, but those who love you will celebrate with you. -- Steve Maraboli
I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement. -- Tina Fey

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