Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with… — Roopal Patel Copy Share Image
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge… — David Coleman Copy Share Image
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Even though I had a great deal of respect for children's TV and theatre, it wasn't my intent to specialize solely in… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls'… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
I think one of the things helping Donald Trump is, he hasn't known what he can't do. It's not in his vernacular.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about… — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you… — Fritz Maytag Copy Share Image
Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive… — Stephen Amell Copy Share Image
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I… — Clive James Copy Share Image
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was… — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We… — James D. Nicoll Copy Share Image
So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image