“...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way. — Betty White Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet.… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
. I did an interview earlier and somebody asked me if I [knew I] was onto something back when I was first… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. — Tanya Tucker Copy Share Image
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
