When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of… — Juan Pablo Galavis Copy Share Image
“If I had been born in the 1700′s, presumably children had a bigger vocabulary than I had which means I wouldn’t have… — John Branyan Copy Share Image
I will say that is a quality I love about great directors, which is the ability to give you one word that… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.… — Helen Vendler 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
Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it.… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge… — David Coleman Copy Share Image
We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to… — Mos Def 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 vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus… — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image