I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller,… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them… — Vanna Bonta 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
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase… — Bergen Evans 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
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive… — Stephen Amell Copy Share Image
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have… — Joni Mitchell 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
Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Even though I had a great deal of respect for children's TV and theatre, it wasn't my intent to specialize solely in… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo 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
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
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant… — Diane Ackerman 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
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you… — Fritz Maytag Copy Share Image
Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what… — John Humphrys 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 majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about… — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls'… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think one of the things helping Donald Trump is, he hasn't known what he can't do. It's not in his vernacular.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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