If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand… But until… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest… — John Ayto Copy Share Image
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this… — Stephen Baldwin 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
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my… — Jill Scott 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
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
I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was… Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction… — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities… — Vittorio Storaro Copy Share Image
When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education… — Henry Giroux 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
“In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
When I'm looking for a leader who's gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who's gonna be intent… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary… — Kate Magowan Copy Share Image
I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's… — Mary McDonnell Copy Share Image