Best Vocabulary Sayings
322 Vocabulary quotes by 303 unique authors
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you…
— Robert Frost
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Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes…
— Blaise Cendrars
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The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition…
— Igor Stravinsky
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The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly…
— Peter L. Berger
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The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your…
— Stephen King
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Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.
— Don Imus
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Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports…
— Francois-Henri Pinault
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I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must…
— James Agee
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they…
— Mos Def
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Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just.
— Danny Villanueva
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More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something,…
— Phyllis Rose
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As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect…
— Adrian Belew
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It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go…
— Fritz Maytag
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Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
— Josemaria Escriva
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Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five…
— George Mikes
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To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First,…
— L. Tom Perry
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Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and…
— Krista Tippett
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There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the…
— Marilyn Hacker
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The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking,…
— Derek Walcott
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It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing.
— Emma Watson
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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey,…
— Vanna Bonta
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So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never…
— Albert Hadley
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