Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“Lexicon was created specifically for dictionaries. As such, it is optimized for maximum readability in a minimum of space. It achieves this… — Stephen Coles Copy Share Image
In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“ 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.” — Max Barry Copy Share Image
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“ 'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?'… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a binary state, a shifting… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Australians were very practical, Emily had found. They did things quickly and purposefully and to the absolute minimum standard required. It was… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics,… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“What was it Like?" "What was what like?" he said, although he knew. "Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so.… — Roger Gale Copy Share Image
Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“You didn't happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?" May as well milk the effort. "Yes, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
