If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me. — Ryan Seacrest Copy Share Image
“The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students'… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Fear doesn't enter into my vocabulary. Fear is the gateway to the next step in my development. — Catherine Oxenberg Copy Share Image
“By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.” — Betty Hart Copy Share Image
They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just… — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
“A powerful vocabulary correlates significantly with academic and professional success and offers a delightful expansion of your options for self-expression. Every time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle?—the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Playing nice isn't really something that's in my vocabulary. I just do what I think is right. — Katie Hill Copy Share Image
Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.'… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Artists have their very distinctive voices that theyve developed over a long period. It takes time to find your voice, your vocabulary… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it.… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in… — William Labov Copy Share Image
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in… — Suzy Amis Copy Share Image
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