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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
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it… — Joseph Brodsky
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a… — Dean Koontz
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than… — Kate Atkinson
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
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English… — Robert A. Heinlein
Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee… — Daniel Handler
Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them… — David Sedaris
On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the… — Mark Dunn
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. — Anthony Burgess
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here… — Twyla Tharp
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines… — Ursula K. Le Guin
She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if… — Jon McGregor
The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. — P. C. Cast
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness… — Henry Hazlitt
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we… — Alexandra Fuller
Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish,… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying… — James Salter
You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can’t walk around letting people think you’re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it’s fun to call people… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why… — Samuel R. Delany
As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be… — Jon Krakauer
The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks… — Charles M. Schulz
There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the… — Sheri S. Tepper

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