Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation;… — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes.… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of entertainment. Having cable gave me access to HBO, Showtime, and The Movie Channel. Constantly taking… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
