I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can. — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some of the ways I write my raps is from my vocabulary I learned in school. — Fabolous Copy Share Image
“Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language… — Anis Mojgani Copy Share Image
When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with… — Adrian Belew Copy Share Image
I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did… — Ted Lyons Copy Share Image
English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you… — Seth Copy Share Image
The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness;… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering.… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“She copies vocabulary words down in a notebook because she likes the way they sound: Harridan. Pusillanimous. Talisman. Dowager. Enervating. Sycophantic . . .” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself… — Ari Marmell Copy Share Image
I'd rather read than watch a movie. It gives me new ways to approach my delivery, gives me a new vocabulary. — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
