Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary. — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
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
I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did… — Ted Lyons Copy Share Image
“Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language… — Anis Mojgani Copy Share Image
A lot of people who make films in my generation have the vocabulary of all the films they've seen before. — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins Copy Share Image
“It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour:… — Patrick Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think that it's not a bad thing to not be too versed in the vocabulary of cinema, because you start to… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the… — Paul Valery 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
I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets… — Judith Butler 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
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary. — Niko Kovac Copy Share Image
