Vocabulary Quotes

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

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.

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

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

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.

Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

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

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!

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

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.