Vocabulary Quotes
Vocabulary Quote of the day
'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
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.
We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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.
Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.
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.
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.
Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it. Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.
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.
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.
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.
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development
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.
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
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.
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
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.
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.
Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.
Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.
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.
'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.
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.
If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
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.
Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
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.
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.
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!
