The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary. — Niko Kovac 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
My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary. — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and… — Betty Goodwin Copy Share Image
When you lose someone, you go through a lot of metaphors. Our vocabulary falters in the face of death. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary. — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Hollywood child performances. It just reeks of artifice, and it's weird that, for some reason, Hollywood feels they have… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“A powerful vocabulary correlates significantly with academic and professional success and offers a delightful expansion of your options for self-expression. Every time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
. I did an interview earlier and somebody asked me if I [knew I] was onto something back when I was first… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can’t walk around letting people think you’re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it’s fun… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image