I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“It’s when I’m around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes… — Beck Copy Share Image
A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself… — Ari Marmell Copy Share Image
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are… — Robert Genn 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
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis 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
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running,… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
I will say that is a quality I love about great directors, which is the ability to give you one word that… — Michelle Monaghan 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
In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people… — Golan Levin Copy Share Image
“Language is art, language is imagery, music, rhythm, thought, responsibility and communication. With the extensive English vocabulary available to us, an abundance… — Ellen Palestrant 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
Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions,… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
