Vocabulary Quotes · Page 6

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— Amazon

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

— John McCain

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

— Judith Jamison

“Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.”

— Ross Macdonald

I didn't know the word smart was in your vocabulary

— Courtney Hayward

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

— Betty White

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

— Slash

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

— Mary Lou Retton

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think…

— Tommy Lasorda

The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'

— Nell Scovell

How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot…

— Gza

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Just because I have a good vocabulary, I don't think of myself as anachronistic - just because I try not to use…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not…

— Michel de Montaigne

Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent…

— Diane Ackerman

“Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more…

— Neal Shusterman

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but…

— Hannah Arendt

After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by…

— John Ralston Saul

Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new…

— Howard Jacobson

People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement…

— Amy Ray

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.…

— Gaston Bachelard

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary…

— Thomas Szasz

Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be…

— John Angell James

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness;…

— Wyndham Lewis

In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide…

— Susan Griffin

So far, the official definitions of terrorism have the role of demonizing the enemies of the United States and Israel, and of…

— Richard A. Falk

Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there…

— Mark Crispin Miller

Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

— Annie Leibovitz

“I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.”

— Sally Gardner

“Her. One word. A simple pronoun that seems like an entire vocabulary.”

— Autumn Doughton

“All Jacob could hear was the odd sob or sigh, the vocabulary of sorrow.”

— Dean F. Wilson

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.

— Alicia Keys

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

— Stephen D. Krashen

Some of the ways I write my raps is from my vocabulary I learned in school.

— Fabolous