There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses… — Tom Sturridge 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
We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might… — Pat Mastelotto Copy Share Image
“Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle?—the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't intentionally eavesdrop. I'm not looking for salacious gossip, I'm just looking for vocabulary items. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We… — James D. Nicoll Copy Share Image
“The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about… — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can. — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of… — Anonymous 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
A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Hollywood child performances. It just reeks of artifice, and it's weird that, for some reason, Hollywood feels they have… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
