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I love oral hygiene.
I had bad skin growing up and I swear by oral supplements.
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.
Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.
For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
I've been working to see that mental health is raised in both oral and written question sessions in parliament.
First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.
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.
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.
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
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.
While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit of truth.
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 grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.
I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition.
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.
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.
Whenever you're going into oral argument, it's preferable to be able to weave the arguments together. That gets harder when you split the argument into pieces.
The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.
The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows.
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.
In Germany, apprentices undergo a final examination in the vocational school and an oral examination and practical test in the workplace. The same should happen in Britain.
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.
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.
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.
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.
A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.
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 lessons as often as we please.
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.
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.
I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.