Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine,… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Some of the ways I write my raps is from my vocabulary I learned in school. — Fabolous Copy Share Image
Just because I have a good vocabulary, I don't think of myself as anachronistic - just because I try not to use… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers,… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary. — Michel Thomas Copy Share Image
“[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was… — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. "… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with… — Adrian Belew Copy Share Image
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
