Vocabularies Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.
— Stephen Fry
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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
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Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
— Joseph Campbell
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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
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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
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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
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My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries
— Andre Nickatina
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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
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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
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Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
— A. S. Byatt
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I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
— Jack Gilbert
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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
Who Wrote These Vocabularies Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Vocabularies Quotes as follows: