Vocabularies Quotes

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Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of… — Kenneth Burke
Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not… — Alex Garland
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority… — E L Doctorow
The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies. — Stephen Fry
Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put… — Mario Pei
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. — Joseph Campbell
The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. — Hermann Ebbinghaus
We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could… — Steve Jobs
People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their… — Tony Robbins
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries — Andre Nickatina
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised… — Jane Yolen
Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have… — Milan Kundera
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. — A. S. Byatt
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can. — Jack Gilbert
I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies. — Harry Knowles

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