Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create… — Sydney Pollack 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
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of entertainment. Having cable gave me access to HBO, Showtime, and The Movie Channel. Constantly taking… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that… — Richard Rodriguez 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
“OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm on crutches when I have to go by the dialogue sheet. I want the artiste's natural, spontaneous reaction… — Vignesh Shivan 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
My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
