Vocabulary Quotes · Page 3

“Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.”

— John Searles

The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.

— Stephen Fry

The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

— Charlie Daniels

Failure was not an option. It just wasn't in my vocabulary.

— Hilary Devey

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

— Paul Vitz

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

— Charles R. Swindoll

“It’s when I’m around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now”

— Cath Crowley

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

— Don Imus

Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential.

— Lara Dutta

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a…

— Herbert Spencer

A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but…

— Larry Wilcox

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound…

— Pierre Schaeffer

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

— Wilma Rudolph

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they…

— Barbara Kruger

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

— Laurieann Gibson

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy…

— Camille Paglia

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just…

— Maya Beiser

I feel like I'm on crutches when I have to go by the dialogue sheet. I want the artiste's natural, spontaneous reaction…

— Vignesh Shivan

Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel…

— Guy Standing

For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about…

— Judith Butler

“This document outlines our plan to perpetrate insurance fraud, insider trading, and character assassination. ...hopefully tripling our paycheck on this job. Okay,…

— Howard Tayler

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall…

— Henry Petroski

If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if…

— Demian Bichir

The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional…

— Robert Graves

[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants,…

— Junot Diaz

“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to…

— Laura Kipnis

There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear.…

— Samuel R. Delany

I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the…

— Julian Burnside

Sometimes I see my students, especially the ones with a gift for the lyrical, reaching far outside the realm of their own…

— Melissa Febos

Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so…

— Evgeny Morozov

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

— Edward Abbey

Rock has its own vocabulary, but you can approach it with freedom.

— John Popper

“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.”

— Winston Churchill

My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

— Karen Russell

“-If you had a better vocabulary, perhaps you wouldn't be failing English!”

— Sharon Mills Draper

I pretend to be calm, it's not a word in my vocabulary.

— Gennaro Gattuso

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

— Evan Esar