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
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
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
“ 'Two things.' 'Name them. I am instructing you to name them.' 'I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway.… — Max Barry 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
Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“You went to school," Lee said. "I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted to teach… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“ 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-'… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“What we're doing, or, I should say, what you're doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes… — Max Barry 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
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak… — Bono Copy Share Image
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He shook his head to clear it, but the world grew dark and angry and would not stay upright. The world did… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
[I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed,… — Andrea Dworkin 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
The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by God.… — Max Barry 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
A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
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