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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)