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
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
“I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It’s a genuine vocabulary.” — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but… — James Agee Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But… — Charles Frazier 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 we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this… — Edwidge Danticat 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
Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.” — John Broadbent Copy Share Image
When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary. — Vince Young Copy Share Image
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side. — Shaquille O'Neal 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
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
Some people are impressed with a person, who has a large vocabulary. Im impressed with the person, who knows how to express… — Kaoru Shinmon 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
In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful. — Deepak Chopra 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
I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould 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
Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent… — Ellen Goodman 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
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
![“Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it…” quote by Edwidge Danticat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d62/edwidge-danticat-2559_earthquakes_language-is-such-a-powerful-thing-after_2355536.jpg)
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