Vocabulary Quotes

322 quotes by 307 authors

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
I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try. — Pamela Anderson
I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And… — Jim Rohn
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to… — Jules Feiffer
The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all… — Whitney M. Young
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat;… — Og Mandino
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages… — Jacob Bronowski
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. — Kim Basinger
Tired is not a word in my vocabulary. — Brittany Murphy
'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world. — Wilma Rudolph
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours. — Kevin Rudd
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their… — Joan Aiken
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
Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists. — Rajneesh
Losing is not in my vocabulary. — Ruud van Nistelrooy
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
In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by… — Donald E. Westlake
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has… — Susan Sontag

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