Lexicon Quotes

24 quotes by 24 authors

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages.… — Bono
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer… — Jacques Derrida
Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich. — Laila Lalami
What happens is all these things we're seeing â€“ campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago… — Joel Salatin
Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them. — Tim McIlrath
Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon… — Terry Pratchett
[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it… — Bonnie Bassler
Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible… — Chris Pavone
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle… — Penelope Lively
I've been 6'4'' since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon. — Jason Segel
I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie.… — Alice Eve
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that… — Richard Rosen
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is not possible to redefine marriage.Â Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice… — Roger Gale
Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical… — Deborah Feldman
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. — Bob Dylan
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington… — George Will
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and… — Julian Baggini

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