What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Even though I had a great deal of respect for children's TV and theatre, it wasn't my intent to specialize solely in… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The sole forms of social interaction I was aware of as a kid involved a jungle gym and a sticker book. It… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of… — Peter Greenaway 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 not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger,… — John MacLachlan Gray Copy Share Image
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image