Inspirational Quote by Stephen Fry Download Open image “The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.” — Stephen Fry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Knows Language People Swear Vocabulary
Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
People who use a lot of swear words, tend to be more honest and trust worthy, human behavioral studies suggest — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
There are complaints that it's hard to remember what you can say and what you can't, which words are 'in' for certain groups and which words are not. And yet we started out learning that the 'kitty' on the sidewalk was actually a squirrel, we learned to differentiate between fire trucks and school buses, and many people today know the… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share
And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Look at the kind of people who most object to the childishness and cheapness of celebrity culture. Does one really want to side with… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insulted, degraded and revolted. More than that, he… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
