The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.' — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
The word CAN'T does not fit into my vocabulary of words because can't never could do nothing anyways... — Roxanne Coy Copy Share Image
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I got Cs in English at school. I hated it. But now I want to be a writer and I'm voracious for… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I had the most incredible time on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It never occurred to me when I took it on that… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can’t walk around letting people think you’re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it’s fun… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
. I did an interview earlier and somebody asked me if I [knew I] was onto something back when I was first… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“Her. One word. A simple pronoun that seems like an entire vocabulary.” — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
“All Jacob could hear was the odd sob or sigh, the vocabulary of sorrow.” — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Some of the ways I write my raps is from my vocabulary I learned in school. — Fabolous Copy Share Image