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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
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
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
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
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. — P.J. O'Rourke
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
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
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
I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be. — Don Imus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight. — Josemaria Escriva
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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