Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“She copies vocabulary words down in a notebook because she likes the way they sound: Harridan. Pusillanimous. Talisman. Dowager. Enervating. Sycophantic . . .” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but… — Larry Wilcox Copy Share Image
When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary. — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary of how God works with… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not… — R. O. Blechman Copy Share Image
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself… — Charles Harrington Elster Copy Share Image
I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering.… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
“At the end of each day, Elizabeth read to me. She had shelves and shelves of children's classics, dusty hardcovers with stamped… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
It's funny how certain objects convey a message - my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary. — Willie Aames Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a dynamic personality and have the ability to use my vocabulary in some creative ways. — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world. — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary. — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot.… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“Remember that the basic rule of vocabulary is to use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
