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Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the… — James Merrill
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established… — Gaston Bachelard
I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school… — Eli Roth
We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our… — Vittorio Storaro
The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. — Hermann Ebbinghaus
The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have… — Thomas Sowell
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. — Ambrose Bierce
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and… — Mark Twain
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the… — Thomas Szasz
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that… — Jonathan Raban
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling,… — Israel Shenker
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words… — Margaret Mahy
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their… — Mary McDonnell
It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese. — Jason Patric
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm… — Michael Polanyi
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is… — Jimmy Reid
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things… — Gabourey Sidibe
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. — Tanya Tucker
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language! — Keith Urban
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is… — Daniel Yergin
The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of… — Frederick Lenz
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and… — William Labov
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! — Anne McCaffrey
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey

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