Oral Quotes

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

Give, Fact, Lies

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges

Art, Poetry, Before

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.
Lewis Black

Country, Prayer, Track

I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.
Ginnifer Goodwin

Alone, Care, Children

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

Health, Smile, Care

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

Power, Long, Try

I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.
Nathan Fillion

History, War, Game

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Huston Smith

Knowledge, Dead, Hand

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

Often, Books, Hand

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

Society, May, Left

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

Future, Society, Past

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

Help, Remember, Anxiety

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
David Antin

Between, Quite, Literate

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

Health, Best, Care

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

Good, Health, Care

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
Saul Williams

Great, History, Poetry

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

History, War, America

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
Robert Fitzgerald

Working, Call, Tradition

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

Doubt, Battle, Before

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

True, May, Trials

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
James Laughlin

Poetry, Beautiful, Book

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.
Ron Rash

Love, Learning, Writing

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

Change, Down, Die

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
Buchi Emecheta

Important, Person, Speak

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
George Plimpton

Rather, Reader, Biography

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

Often, Books, Hand

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