Top 262 Oral Quotes & Sayings

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

All history was at first oral.

I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.

You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it.

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

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

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

The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.

Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history projects after many events, from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina. Many oral history projects are much more confined, but equally valuable. We can learn about different working conditions, living conditions, trauma experiences and much more through oral history.

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

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.

The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.

Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in multiple interview sessions. Oral history allows the person being interviewed to use their own language to talk about events in their life and the method is used by researchers in different fields like history, anthropology and sociology.

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

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.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

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

A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.

My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.

Reciprocating oral sex is, in general, a very good idea!

We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not exactly in their full magnificence, but still strong in their differentness from written stories. Each mode has its ways and methods and rules. They can reinforce each other; this is the advantage my generation has - we can bring to the written story something of that energy of the story told by word of mouth.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit of truth.

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.

I love oral hygiene.

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

My personal feeling is that oral sex is against nature.

My morals went when the president got oral.

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

You know the worst thing about oral sex ? The view.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters.

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

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.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

Is a BJ adultery? What? Did I miss a day of school? Of course it is! Oral sex is adultery like Curling is an Olympic sport. The only thing is, oral sex should be in the Olympics because it's much harder than Curling, and if you're good at it, you DESERVE a medal!

Nobody as of today can produce any oral or written statement from me talking about changing the constitution.

I had bad skin growing up and I swear by oral supplements.

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

I've been working to see that mental health is raised in both oral and written question sessions in parliament.

I am not against songs in films. We come from an oral tradition of storytelling. I have grown up listening to epics in oral rendition and oral rendition always had music.

The president is on national TV apologizing for getting oral sex. Why didn't he just stick with his lie? You got to stick with your lie. If you lie, you have to believe that lie whole-heartedly. It has to become the truth for you. But this man, the most powerful man in the world, is on national TV apologizing for receiving oral sex. He's an idiot. There are men sitting in here right now who would gladly accept oral sex on national TV.

Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down.

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.

How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.