Quotes about vocabulary
vocabulary fit arthur
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. James Merrill
vocabulary use language
I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. John McCain
vocabulary vision ifs
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future. Jim Rohn
vocabulary coercion reason
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. Joseph Campbell
vocabulary mind action
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind. Paul Valery
vocabulary childhood feelings
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint. Richard Brautigan
vocabulary learning-new activity
Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary. Tim Gunn
vocabulary way tongue
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it. Robert A. Heinlein
vocabulary expectations political
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality. Thomas Szasz
vocabulary interesting trying
I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all Todd Barry
vocabulary events action
For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action. Seth
vocabulary feelings kind
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. Tanya Tucker
vocabulary catholic together
I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord. Paul Crouch
vocabulary remember i-can
Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will. Phyllis George
vocabulary feel-good political
The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself. Thomas Sowell
vocabulary truth-is made
Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths. Richard Rorty
vocabulary people swear
The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies. Stephen Fry
vocabulary wake-up bed
I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary. Steve Martin
vocabulary age next
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
vocabulary way stage
I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it. Sanjeev Bhaskar
vocabulary world lasts
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others. Vanna Bonta
vocabulary brain shapes
We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. Steven Pinker
vocabulary brain limits
Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's. Scott Adams
vocabulary nervous nervousness
I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary. Vince Young
vocabulary-words ownership fees
Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me. Ryan Seacrest
vocabulary-words simplicity simple-life
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. Winston Churchill
vocabulary mind growth
A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind. Wade Davis