Vocabulary Quotes

Fear isn't in my vocabulary.

— Ernst Happel

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

— Edward Herrmann

Losing is not in my vocabulary.

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

— Betty White

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

— Brittany Murphy

Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

— Nas

“God, I love a man with a big vocabulary.”

— Tiffany Reisz

I'm a vocabulary nerd.

— Sam Trammell

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Steven Pinker

Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Cheeke

"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.

— George W. Bush

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

— Bill Watterson

The word 'can't' is not in the successful man's vocabulary.

— Michael_IsHere

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

— Glenn Close

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of…

— Keith Urban

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his…

— Sinclair Lewis

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Lytton Strachey

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

— Adam Phillips

Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people…

— Golan Levin

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind…

— Daniel Handler

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create…

— Henry Giroux

“Language is art, language is imagery, music, rhythm, thought, responsibility and communication. With the extensive English vocabulary available to us, an abundance…

— Ellen Palestrant

She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too…

— Jon McGregor

Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary of how God works with…

— Bruce Wilkinson

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so…

— Larry Flynt

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions,…

— Mary C. Neal

Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger…

— Samuel Johnson

“The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to…

— CS Lewis

Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any…

— Richard Rohr

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

— José Saramago

Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the…

— Julian Burnside