Oral
Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.
Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.
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Oral Quotations
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'
Woody Allen
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges
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
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Huston Smith
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
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
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
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
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
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
Oral Translations
oral in Dutch is mondeling, oraal
oral in French is de vive voix
oral in Italian is orale
oral in Spanish is oral
oral in Swedish is muntlig
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