Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Crystal

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Dean Koontz

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

Carl Sandburg

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Charles R. Swindoll

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

Edward Sapir

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

Edward Abbey

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Edward Herrmann

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Elizabeth Taylor

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Beck

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Edward Gorey

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Bread for today is bread enough.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Harold Bloom

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

Werner Herzog

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.

Martin H. Fischer

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Erin McKean

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

Jason Fuchs

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

Jeri Ryan

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.