My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth 1,000 megapixels. High-definition (HD) TV images are used to camouflage some writers' low-definition (LD) vocabulary.” — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
“In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive… — Stephen Amell Copy Share Image
If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot.… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you… — Fritz Maytag Copy Share Image
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries — Andre Nickatina Copy Share Image
The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness;… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes.… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's… — Mary McDonnell Copy Share Image
