Brain Quote by Duane Chapman

Reading the dictionary helps me express myself better. I can spend hours flicking through a thesaurus, too. It's not about expanding my vocabulary, it's…

— Arlo Parks

When you have no idea what to do or how to do it, you just need to see and absorb as much as you…

— Miguel McKelvey

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

— Zig Ziglar

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…

— Rudolf Flesch

“Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek more accurate…

— Ruby K. Payne

Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.

— Grenville Kleiser

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…

— Henry Hazlitt

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they…

— Sherwood Anderson

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

— Anonymous

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think,…

— Drew Barrymore

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…

— James Agee

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words,…

— Anonymous