Vocabulary Quotes
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Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. (Quote by - Robert H. Schuller)
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. (Quote by - Margaret Mahy)
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. (Quote by - Mary Wesley)
Sound is the vocabulary of nature. (Quote by - Pierre Schaeffer)
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. (Quote by - Fred Frith)
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. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)
It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese. (Quote by - Jason Patric)
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. (Quote by - Meg Ryan)
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. (Quote by - Annie Leibovitz)
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. (Quote by - Gerald Barzan)
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. (Quote by - Harry Mathews)
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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. (Quote by - Larry Flynt)
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. (Quote by - Michael Polanyi)
Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smo (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. (Quote by - Alexis De Tocqueville)
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. (Quote by - Artur Davis)
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
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. (Quote by - Adrian Belew)
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. (Quote by - Vera Wang)
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. (Quote by - Marilyn Hacker)
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.' (Quote by - Studs Terkel)
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. (Quote by - John Charles Polanyi)
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. (Quote by - Lynn Johnston)
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. (Quote by - Harold Bloom)
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. (Quote by - Sinclair Lewis)
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. (Quote by - Lytton Strachey)
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
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. (Quote by - Peter L. Berger)
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. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
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. (Quote by - Todd Barry)
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. (Quote by - William Labov)
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. (Quote by - Ani DiFranco)
In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county. (Quote by - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet)
Statistician: Delphic figure who lacks the necessary vocabulary to converse with mere mortals (Quote by - Rod Nicolson)
I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. (Quote by - Roscoe Mitchell)
Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. (Quote by - Lee Konitz)
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. (Quote by - Tanya Tucker)
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. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. (Quote by - Marina Warner)
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. (Quote by - Andrew Eldritch)
There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)
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. (Quote by - Anna Friel)
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. (Quote by - Daniel Yergin)
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. (Quote by - Marilyn Hacker)
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. (Quote by - Derek Walcott)
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. (Quote by - James Merrill)
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. (Quote by - Tommy Lasorda)
Losing is not in my vocabulary. (Quote by - Ruud van Nistelrooy)
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. (Quote by - James Agee)
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. (Quote by - Robert Fitzgerald)
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. (Quote by - John McPhee)
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point. (Quote by - Patrick Warburton)
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. (Quote by - Jose Saramago)
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. (Quote by - Clifton Fadiman)
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
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. (Quote by - Edward Sapir)
We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly. (Quote by - Pat Mastelotto)
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. (Quote by - Christopher Reeve)
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
