Verbal Quotations

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

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.

Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I.

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'

From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers.

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact.

Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.

In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

We approached the residence and announced ourselves. The female occupant refused to open the door. After a brief verbal standoff we gained entry and Dow was arrested without incident.

We've approached the other trusts and have gotten a verbal commitment, but they would like to be able to be the monies that put us over the top in the project. This has a great chance of being a reality and we really need $10 and $25 donations from people in the community.

Verbal slip-ups often occur because we say things without knowledge of the subtle implications they carry. Understanding these implications requires social awareness - the ability to pick up on the emotions and experiences of other people.

Verbal assurances have been given that these principles would be adhered to.

We decided not to play another game because winning it won't make us the district champions out right. We just talked about it, and we came to a verbal agreement over who would have the No. 1 and 2 seeds.

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

She's not the most verbal leader, but she's gonna lead on the court in every other kind of way. She led this younger team to a state championship. Above stats or anything else, that's what really matters.

I don't get it. He was so happy. He's a guy who by his own description had a tough time in life finding a place that felt right, finding a peace of mind and finding a place where he felt appreciated. And he was very, very verbal in feeling that he had found that in Philadelphia. And not just publicly, but privately with us. If you sought that for so long, why not enjoy it for a bit and take the ride? I wish there was something more to all of this, but I don't know what it would be.

But the relationship was not as strong. But the point is, in women, whether it was verbal or non-verbal intelligence, brain size was positively correlated -- that means the bigger the brain, the better they did.

From the middle linebacker position, you have to be really verbal and I have no problem with that. There is no room for a quiet player on the football field.

He never says much. He's not a guy that gets real excited or real verbal and I think that may be why he gets disrespected.

He's aggressive but he's just kind of an even-keeled guy. He doesn't get emotional about things. I think he enjoys the competition, but he's not a verbal guy. His highs and lows are hard to see because he's so even-keeled, which can be good at times.

Her severe brain injury has caused a lack of verbal communication along with visual and perceptual impairments, ... But she still seems determined to get back to where she was.

He's a leader by example. He's not real verbal but he plays hard. He's always where he is supposed to be. He always does what I ask him to do. And when he does that, the other guys follow him. He knows the team is watching, so he always gives everything his best.

He was running different routes. I don't know where he was going. He was doing a lot of verbal routes. It was between him and Dennis. He was running all over the place.

He wants to win - that is his No. 1 priority. He is a leader for this team in a different way. He is not loud, verbal or demonstrative, but he leads by gutting it out and fighting for rebounds. He can score from the outside, in the paint and on runners. He has emerged as a major leader for us during this stretch of games.

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

Our argument is that the more networking there is in the prefrontal cortex, the more the person has an upper hand in lying. Their verbal skills are higher. They almost have a natural advantage.

Martin's verbal commitment contradicted what they put in writing.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

I tell you, a couple of years ago, there was a science article on a dog, Rico, that could obey verbal commands. That got me ten times more angry e-mails than this. Souls and gods are one thing, but people care a lot about their dogs. So my rule is: I can write about God but not dogs.

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.

I'm hoping there will be some voting repercussions. The (county) commissioners really let us down. (Commissioners) Steve Stuart and Marc Boldt gave us verbal agreement that they would do anything they could to keep the clinic from opening.

I would not characterize the conversation as a verbal deal. It was more an exchange of thoughts and ideas, and looking for information. We didn't make any arrangements contrary to what's in writing in the letter.

Midland has always been about hand-shakes -- honoring verbal contracts.

Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.

We came out here expecting a lot of verbal in the papers and things being said. If anything they have been under more pressure than us going into this test match. We have just got on with what we have been doing. We have been very focussed on the things we have been able to control which is our preparation.

Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.

We have a verbal understanding that they won't trade him or think about trading him until the (July 31st) trading deadline. I've got a verbal understanding with Kevin Towers that Dave won't be traded .Ê.Ê. unless somebody wants him at the trading deadline. I'm under the understanding that won't change.

We have a verbal commitment on the team.

The deal has all but been done. We have a verbal agreement from James and it's just a case of getting the paperwork processed next week.

We waited here in the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) premises from morning as per the directives of the court. Then we got verbal intimation that they are not arriving.

We've worked with the sheriff's department for 60 years. It's always been a verbal handshake agreement, but now it's in writing.

When, at the age of seven, he blew up the family truck by dropping a match down the gas tank, we should have known he'd grow up to make his living hurling verbal firebombs at presidents.

We welcome the fact that each side has given at least verbal approval to a truce,

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnt know what to think. Its hard to think without words cause you havent got a clue as to what youre thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a verbal void - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as verbal void.

What is very clear is that there is a correlation between brain size and intelligence, particularly verbal ability.

We are a polite people. You'll find Chicago to be a very friendly town. There won't be anything physical, but you can expect a little verbal harassment coming your way.

Bonnell was our first verbal commitment of the freshman class a year ago. He knew he wanted to come here.

At the time of the shooting they were engaged in casual conversation, they were not engaged in any verbal confrontation, any argument, anything like that ... she pulled a gun out and began firing.

CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operation which in literature, particularly in the drama, is commonly fatal to the victim. Nevertheless, the liability to a cursing is a risk that cuts but a small figure in fixing the rates of life insurance.

The school has an urgent responsibility to protect all its students from verbal and physical abuse.

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.

Stopping motorists or pedestrians in order to provide verbal or written information concerning the current job action is an improper and abusive use of police powers,

Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader's use of verbal and written symbols employees are motivated or deflated, informed or confused, productive or apathetic. A leader's ability to carve off the verbal fatand get to the meat of an issue, idea or plan will find success at every turn.

Any increase is welcomed. Obviously, as a former English teacher, I wish that the verbal had increased some, but it looks like it remained flat.

A script is so word-heavy, after trying to communicate so much verbally, I think you need a different outlet to give the verbal centre of your brain a chance to cool off.

As a senior leader and member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), I do not have the freedom to go to the town or for verbal overkill,

As a parent of a varsity basketball player, I have been disturbed by the verbal attacks and accusations directed toward coach Jackson, ... I find it unusual that incidents, such as mooning, are recalled by some players, but not others. We look forward to the resolution of this distracting issue and a successful upcoming basketball season. Hopefully, all players on this year's team will have positive attitudes and will bring 110 percent effort to the court every day. My son and my family totally support coach Jackson.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on

A verbal commit isn't set in stone, ... I thought about waiting it out, but a blown-out knee, there goes the scholarship.

A verbal appeal is not enough, and we require a formal application. It has not yet been decided as to when sample B will be tested.

This is going to be a verbal match just like it's going to be a physical match, ... I like that. I love having fun, and I love to yap, so why not?

This is the earliest verbal commitment we've received. A lot of kids don't have the insight as to what they want to do, and they spend a lot of time waiting on things. Josh didn't want to mess around waiting for offers, and he decided to come into a program where he can have success on the court and in the classroom.

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

They gave him verbal commands to come out, ... The individual crawled to the end of the house and got behind a pillar or box -- something that obstructed the officers' view.

They had a verbal altercation. We believe Escalante-Mendoza went outside and got into a car. As his brother was standing near the driver's side door, there were three shots fired through the windshield and one through the passenger door.

It's a contract whether written or verbal - and the city was responsible for what it agreed to do - to provide medical insurance for retirees until age 65.

It started out as some type of verbal argument, ended up in a wrestling or some type of a fight in residence, and Mr. Geffrard ended up pulling out a handgun and shooting, and one of the shots struck the female that's now in the hospital.

It's always more difficult to take on a case in which a contract might contradict or not substantiate verbal promises. However, it's not a burden that's never been met before.

It's fine. I'm ready. I'm not really a verbal guy who will get on anybody. I'll just try to lead by example.

It should be a good dual. PHS always has a good verbal crowd.

It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.

That's the deal we made. A verbal deal. If you shoot the puck, you'll stay there. If you don't, we'll put you back down on the wall somewhere.

It takes awhile. I'm glad all these guys are here. They've been doing a lot of drills. They've been doing a lot of things. You've got verbal direction instructions to each other. ... It's a unit you want to get together as quickly as possible, especially on defense.

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

There was apparently a verbal clash followed by a physical exchange.

The revamp is in response to graduate schools' desires for additional information on students' ability in verbal reasoning and quantitative. It's also very much security, and to ensure that the scores we report are valid.

These verbal attacks on referees disgust me. This kind of behavior leads to problems with supporters. I would strongly recommend that all parties involved show respect for the referees and think about fair play.

Art therapy is about the creation and the discussion of the intent of the client. It's a different way of sharing. No matter how healthy, verbal expression is the hardest thing to do.

I'm a big leader by example. I'm not the most verbal person.

In my 27 years of calling games for ESPN, I have never ever seen a player take more verbal abuse than he has taken.