Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see my students, especially the ones with a gift for the lyrical, reaching far outside the realm of their own… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
I think one of the things helping Donald Trump is, he hasn't known what he can't do. It's not in his vernacular.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction… — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
“Remember that the basic rule of vocabulary is to use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Copy Share Image
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear.… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's… — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them. — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
