“Sex is not a time to chat. In fact, it's one of the few instances in my overly articulated, exceedingly verbal life where it is perfectly appropriate -- if not preferable -- to shut up. And now suddenly I have to worry about being stumped for conversation? -- no thank you.”— Darren Star, Miranda Hobbes, Cynthia Nixon, imdb.com
“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we’ll never meet. It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.”— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com