Quotes with verbal

  • 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.
  • Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

Quotes 1 till 19 of 19.

  • W. H. Auden A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Goldwyn A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
    - +
     0
  • Alain Juppe Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.
    - +
     0
  • Billy Collins 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.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Abraham H. Maslow Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Bibhu Mohapatra Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
    - +
     0
  • Brenda Laurel Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Audre Lorde 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
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
    - +
     0
  • Herbert Marcuse Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
    Herbert Marcuse
    German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Collins 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.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Leslie Fiedler 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.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Dorothy Nevill The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
    - +
     0
  • Brander Matthews There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
    - +
     0
  • Annie Leibovitz There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alan Greenspan 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
    American economist (1926 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alan Watts We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Lee Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
    - +
     0
  • W. Clement Stone You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
    - +
     0
  • Allen Tate I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
    - +
    -1
All verbal famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com