Vocabulary Quotes · Page 10

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

— Lynn Johnston

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

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think…

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Phyllis George

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

— Mary Lou Retton

“My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word…

— Charles Frazier

Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.

— Kurt Sutter

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop…

— Judith Butler

If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you…

— Jane Seymour

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm…

— Frank Wildhorn

I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine,…

— Chris Gardner

Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language…

— Chuck Thompson

The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep…

— Thomas Sowell

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall…

— Henry Petroski

If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if…

— Demian Bichir

So far, the official definitions of terrorism have the role of demonizing the enemies of the United States and Israel, and of…

— Richard A. Falk

In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide…

— Susan Griffin

The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story…

— Roger Schank

Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be…

— John Angell James

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary…

— Thomas Szasz

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.…

— Gaston Bachelard

It's better to emphasize biblical theology, partly because there are fine Study Bibles already available that lean into systematic theology, and partly…

— D. A. Carson

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness;…

— Wyndham Lewis

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

— Jose Saramago

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

— Wilfred Funk

The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.”

— John Broadbent

“I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It’s a genuine vocabulary.”

— Soar Soaring-Words.com

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before…

— Dorothea Lange

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…

— Emma Watson

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

— Nelson Shanks

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but…

— James Agee

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a…

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Vince Young

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver…

— Jason Mraz

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

— Joseph Campbell