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.

Dave Chappelle

I have angst in my life, but I'm like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.

David Morse

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

Janis Joplin

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

Janet Jackson

You have to feel good about yourself.

Chin-Ning Chu

Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

Ashley Rickards

If I feel good on the inside, I treat my body with more respect.

Jane Fonda

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

Dennis Prager

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

Aimee Bender

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

Carole Bouquet

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Carlos Mencia

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Carl Bernstein

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Andre

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

C. S. Lewis

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Charles W. Pickering

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Susan B. Anthony

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.