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It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say… — Jim Rohn
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. — Slash
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to… — Wayne Dyer
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. — Joseph Campbell
WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary. — Sanford Meisner
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth
Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and… — Peter Drucker
Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening,… — Ralph Rucci
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities… — Julian Burnside
What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can't be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your… — Donatella Versace
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. — Elizabeth Taylor
Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary. — Charles R. Swindoll
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I… — Kiernan Shipka
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with… — Matt Fraction
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the… — Mary Wesley
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. — Artur Davis
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new… — Yann Martel
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. — Samuel Johnson
Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that… — Samuel Johnson
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout… — Bergen Evans
We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. — Steven Pinker
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the same… — Rudolf Flesch
I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and… — Naomi Wallace
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay… — William Beebe
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of… — John Ralston Saul

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