Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Crystal

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

Chinua Achebe

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

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.

Charles Frazier

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

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.

Elizabeth Taylor

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Charles R. Swindoll

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

Edward Abbey

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

Edward Herrmann

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Aubrey O'Day

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Gilbert Hernandez

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

Mary Ellen Mark

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.

Ali MacGraw

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Debbie Allen

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

Debbie Macomber

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

Allen Ginsberg

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Jim Butcher

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

Fran Lebowitz

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.