Quotes About Oral And Written Expression

#1. In an ideal world, the time English speakers devote to steeling themselves against, and complaining about, things like Billy and me, singular they, and impact as a verb would be better spent attending to genuine matters of graceful oral and written expression.

John McWhorter

#2. Watching the sea as it carried to shore millions of fragments of the sun and cast them, cooled and foaming, on the sand.

Dean Koontz

#3. I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

Robert Downey Jr.

#4. COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others

Radhanath Swami

#5. You're standing by yourself talking about tits?" Kyler asked from behind me. I gave a little shriek and spun around. "God ... " A sexy half-grin appeared. "I need to keep a better eye on you, if that's what you talk about when you're alone.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.

Antonin Scalia

#7. It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

Ellen DeGeneres

#8. We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

John F. Kennedy

#9. It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.

Clive Anderson

#10. If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

Jessica Alba

#11. A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

Mordecai Richler

#12. I'm in love with hope.

Mitch Albom

#13. Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God.

Jean Rostand

#14. Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

P.C. Cast

#15. Being nice is the first step toward being kind. It's a pretty awesome start.

R.J. Palacio

#16. I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

Ronnie Wood

#17. What America did in Vietnam and the Congo - we feel. And as a result come these demonstrations. I am not defending the act of burning USIS books. We deplore it. But we can understand the motives of the students.

Sukarno