Verbal Ability Quotes

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.

Sometimes, I think to myself, 'Damn, I don't speak as well as I used to.'

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Unlike the current occupant of the White House [George W. Bush], he has no difficulty in orally extemporizing a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.

Teachers have always said my only strength is talking and that I talk very fast.

My brother's really well-spoken.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

It's no wonder the president avoids press conferences like the plague. Take away his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans should be embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke more fluently and articulately in English than our own president at their joint press conference recently.

And then all of a sudden, you're doing jumping jacks, you're happy, because Kane can talk. The Big Red Retard can finally speak.

Talking, being a better talker, wouldn't have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

I'm not a very verbal person.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.