#verbal

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

#done #force #funny #gone #hadn

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

#bean #best #both #equally #expression

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#objects #poet #professional #verbal

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

— Malcolm Boyd

#completely #god #heart #however #intent

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#become #child #criticism #important #important tools

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#besides #key #many #treasure #unlocked

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#explain #felt #i #motivations #never

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

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#get #good #i #i think #lazy

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#books #brain #get #give #give me