Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“-If you had a better vocabulary, perhaps you wouldn't be failing English!” — Sharon Mills Draper Copy Share Image
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language… — Anis Mojgani Copy Share Image
“It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour:… — Patrick Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think that it's not a bad thing to not be too versed in the vocabulary of cinema, because you start to… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins Copy Share Image
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller,… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you… — Seth Copy Share Image
It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary. — Niko Kovac Copy Share Image
One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary. — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image