Vocabulary Quotes

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.

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

My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

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

I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.

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.

You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception.

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

People's vocabulary has expanded.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

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

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

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

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

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

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.

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

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

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].

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

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

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

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

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

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.

I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary.

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.

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.

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

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.

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

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

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

'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.

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends, " says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.

I understand the gist of your speculation, ' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.