53 Oral Quotes for You to Enjoy

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination. John Ralston Saul

Saying Best People Word Victory Digital Imagination Worst About Gutenberg More Point Part Written Written Word Over Return Always Era End Oral Bureaucratic Galaxy

What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room. Juan Felipe Herrera

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I read Pamela Colloff's oral history about the campus shooting, '96 Minutes,' when it was first published, and my wheels immediately starting turning toward making a film and making it an animated re-telling. Keith Maitland

History First Immediately Minutes About Animated Toward Read Making Campus Shooting Oral Wheels Turning Film Published Starting

Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device. Mary Roach

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause. Maryanne Wolf

I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter. Mickalene Thomas

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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. Mike Simpson

Health Good Care Long Way Projects Ensuring Some Federal Long Way Support Toward Health Care Access Demonstration Go Oral Children Little Low-Income Shown Funding Recent

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. N. Scott Momaday

Stronger Ways Indians Some Marvelous Written Tradition Than Oral Storytellers

I've heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that's actually delaying the development of literacy. Randi Weingarten

Focus Alike Kindergarten Pushing Written Development Heard Oral Common Literacy Should Skills Teachers Standards Actually Core

Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. Robert H. Schuller

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My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again. Rodney Crowell

Mother Tell Would Over She Oral Stories Again Storyteller

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 Own Relevant About Browse Through Also Read Sort Dialects Diaries Lot Histories Dictionaries Oral Often Different Story While Regional Slang

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

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

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Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual. Steven Pinker

Great Language Style Every Defied Thoughtful Logic Writers Tradition Been Oral Centuries Usage Manual Basis

There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture. Tariq Ali

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. Chuck Palahniuk

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