Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Crystal

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

Rajneesh

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.

Marilyn Hacker

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Malcolm X

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

Louise Gluck

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All I know is what I have words for.

Matthew McConaughey

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

Maya Beiser

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

Tristan Bernard

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Mike White

What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Cathleen Schine

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Deb Caletti

It's shocking the things we call love.