A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'
Conan O'Brien

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.
Sam Goldwyn

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

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

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

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Sergei Eisenstein

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

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

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
Moses Mendelssohn

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.
Judy Collins

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

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

I love being verbal in films.
Sylvester Stallone

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

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.
Shirley Manson

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
Henry Van Dyke