Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
“Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone… — Marvin Shanken Copy Share Image
We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully,… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
I would expunge the word "aptitude" from our vocabulary, because if you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with… — Roopal Patel Copy Share Image
I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think that it's not a bad thing to not be too versed in the vocabulary of cinema, because you start to… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
