Quotes about Vocabulary

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. Votes: 8

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. Votes: 6

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. Votes: 6

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition. Votes: 6

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. Votes: 6

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. Votes: 5

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. Votes: 5

Sound is the vocabulary of nature. Votes: 4

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. Votes: 4

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. Votes: 4

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. Votes: 4

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way. Votes: 4

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese. Votes: 4

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. Votes: 4

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism. Votes: 4

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. Votes: 4

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. Votes: 4

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. Votes: 4

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. Votes: 4

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. Votes: 4

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure. Votes: 4

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language. Votes: 4

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. Votes: 4

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. Votes: 4

The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border. Votes: 4

Vocabulary spills I'm ill. Votes: 3

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue. Votes: 3

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive. Votes: 3

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future. Votes: 3

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence. Votes: 2

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. Votes: 2

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. Votes: 2

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail. Votes: 2

Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary. Votes: 2

Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. Votes: 2

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Votes: 2

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often. Votes: 2

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. Votes: 2

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. Votes: 2

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society. Votes: 2

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. Votes: 2

Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue with the Lord. I utilize my own sort of street vocabulary - nothing slang that would be unacceptable. Votes: 2

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.' Votes: 2

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future. Votes: 2

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. Votes: 2

Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition. Votes: 2

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. Votes: 2

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables. Votes: 2

People's vocabulary has expanded. Votes: 0

Fear isn't in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

Losing is not in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

Humor is not far from my vocabulary. Votes: 0

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. Votes: 0

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary. Votes: 0

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary. Votes: 0

My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary. Votes: 0

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually. Votes: 0

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. Votes: 0

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary. Votes: 0

"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary. Votes: 0

Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary. Votes: 0

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks. Votes: 0

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary. Votes: 0

WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary. Votes: 0

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. Votes: 0

The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now. Votes: 0

I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary. Votes: 0

Failure was not an option. It just wasn't in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary. Votes: 0

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary. Votes: 0

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste. Votes: 0

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary. Votes: 0

The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension. Votes: 0

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension. Votes: 0

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life". Votes: 0

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects. Votes: 0

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. Votes: 0

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone. Votes: 0

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. Votes: 0

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. Votes: 0

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. Votes: 0

I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.' Votes: 0

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. Votes: 0

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. Votes: 0

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. Votes: 0

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be. Votes: 0

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. Votes: 0

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. Votes: 0

Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them. Votes: 0

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. Votes: 0

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. Votes: 0

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development Votes: 0

We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work. Votes: 0

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens. Votes: 0

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting Votes: 0

I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary. Votes: 0

The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science. Votes: 0

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience. Votes: 0

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. Votes: 0

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary Votes: 0

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. Votes: 0

I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time. Votes: 0

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. Votes: 0

Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me. Votes: 0

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times. Votes: 0

In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper'. Votes: 0

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. Votes: 0

Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will. Votes: 0

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character. Votes: 0

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. Votes: 0

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. Votes: 0

Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will.' Votes: 0

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary. Votes: 0

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Votes: 0

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. Votes: 0

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with. Votes: 0

Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight. Votes: 0

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. Votes: 0

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. Votes: 0

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. Votes: 0

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring Votes: 0

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness Votes: 0

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. Votes: 0

Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary. Votes: 0

Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's. Votes: 0

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. Votes: 0

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. Votes: 0

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary. Votes: 0

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. Votes: 0

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try. Votes: 0

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. Votes: 0

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side. Votes: 0

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over. Votes: 0

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards. Votes: 0

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. Votes: 0

Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it. Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it. Votes: 0

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. Votes: 0

Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. Votes: 0

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. Votes: 0

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child. Votes: 0

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary. Votes: 0

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. Votes: 0

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument. Votes: 0

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well. Votes: 0

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary. Votes: 0

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means Votes: 0

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. Votes: 0

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. Votes: 0

Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human.. Votes: 0

Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it. Votes: 0

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. Votes: 0

Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just. Votes: 0

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! Votes: 0

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!' Votes: 0

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours. Votes: 0

I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world. Votes: 0

My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful. Votes: 0

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. Votes: 0

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. Votes: 0

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. Votes: 0

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. Votes: 0

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world. Votes: 0

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century. Votes: 0

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work. Votes: 0

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. Votes: 0

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily. Votes: 0

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. Votes: 0

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary. Votes: 0

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude Votes: 0

When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it. Votes: 0

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language! Votes: 0

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad. Votes: 0

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice. Votes: 0

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. Votes: 0

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't. Votes: 0

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind. Votes: 0

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person. Votes: 0

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. Votes: 0

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense. Votes: 0

I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary. Votes: 0

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. Votes: 0

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. Votes: 0

It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing. Votes: 0

Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements. Votes: 0

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not. Votes: 0

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament. Votes: 0

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists. Votes: 0

The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving. Votes: 0

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. Votes: 0

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes. Votes: 0

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary. Votes: 0

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind. Votes: 0

A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary. Votes: 0

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. Votes: 0

I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary. Votes: 0

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others. Votes: 0

What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can't be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas. Votes: 0

A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men only listen half the time. Votes: 0

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act. Votes: 0

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music. Votes: 0

Every company has its own texture, vocabulary, and singular place in dance history, and I have always wanted to share my perspective of these world renowned institutions. Votes: 0

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive. Votes: 0

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense. Votes: 0

A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail. Votes: 0

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary. Votes: 0

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. Votes: 0

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual. Votes: 0

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. Votes: 0

Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season. Votes: 0

The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being. Votes: 0

Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural landscape and, above all. Votes: 0

I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice pair of legs to go in the shoes is always good, too. Votes: 0

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know. Votes: 0

Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance... Votes: 0

Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. Votes: 0

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena. Votes: 0

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'. Votes: 0

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary. Votes: 0

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary! Votes: 0

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion. Votes: 0

We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings. Votes: 0

Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring. Votes: 0

I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing. Votes: 0

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. Votes: 0

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio. Votes: 0

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary. Votes: 0

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else. Votes: 0

From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas. Votes: 0

As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them. Votes: 0

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. Votes: 0

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate. Votes: 0

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy [but] sentiment is not mushy. Votes: 0

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity. Votes: 0

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity. Votes: 0

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion. Votes: 0

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them. Votes: 0

Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region. Votes: 0

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. Votes: 0

I think that it's not a bad thing to not be too versed in the vocabulary of cinema, because you start to think that certain things are allowed and not allowed. Votes: 0

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened? Votes: 0

Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience. Votes: 0

I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord. Votes: 0

I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. Votes: 0

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it. Votes: 0

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th]. Votes: 0

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved Votes: 0

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved. Votes: 0

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it. Votes: 0

There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that. Votes: 0

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself. Votes: 0

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center. Votes: 0

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress... Votes: 0

Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress. Votes: 0

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. Votes: 0

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it. Votes: 0

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?' Votes: 0

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like... ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it. Votes: 0

It'll be the ballot or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. And if you're not ready to pay that price don't use the word freedom in your vocabulary. Votes: 0

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. Votes: 0

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. Votes: 0

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all. Votes: 0

It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that. Votes: 0

Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading English books even though I had very limited vocabulary. Votes: 0

Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary. Votes: 0

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem. Votes: 0

It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English. Votes: 0

The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved. Votes: 0

People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well. Votes: 0

It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest. Votes: 0

The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education are no longer the lifelines of critical forms of individual and social agency. Votes: 0

Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack. Votes: 0

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable. Votes: 0

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all Votes: 0

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact. Votes: 0

Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect. Votes: 0

Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his attentive generosity and tenderness. Keep your eye on this gifted newcomer. Votes: 0