In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. — Tanya Tucker Copy Share Image
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… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Some people are impressed with a person, who has a large vocabulary. Im impressed with the person, who knows how to express… — Kaoru Shinmon Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Hollywood child performances. It just reeks of artifice, and it's weird that, for some reason, Hollywood feels they have… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet.… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Music is very similar to comedy: It's all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone's onstage doing a solo, essentially it's… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger,… — John MacLachlan Gray Copy Share Image
I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I hate textbooks. I hate how they shoehorn even the most incongruous words – like 'cup' and 'bookcase,' or 'pencil' and 'ashtray'… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from. — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
I always really loved fashion, but I never really was given a vocabulary of, like, what to do and how to do… — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
When I choose child actors, I chose them for their personalities. And then I work with their own vocabulary, so I'm not… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
“Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek… — Ruby K. Payne Copy Share Image
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary. — Michel Thomas Copy Share Image
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails… — Slash Copy Share Image
“Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.” — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
