Quotes about vocabulary
vocabulary going-away trying
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. Dean Koontz
vocabulary matter building
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. David Crystal
vocabulary doe tomorrow
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. Rajneesh
vocabulary important transition
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. Marilyn Hacker
vocabulary liberty use
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. Malcolm X
vocabulary silence wish
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... Louise Gluck
vocabulary-words vocabulary knows
All I know is what I have words for. Ludwig Wittgenstein
vocabulary people surprise
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. Matthew McConaughey
vocabulary trying different
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. Maya Beiser
vocabulary today diction
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. Carl Sandburg
vocabulary spirit common
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 Sapir
vocabulary use cult
Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary. Charles R. Swindoll
vocabulary entrepreneur taught
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. Edward Abbey
vocabulary doe sound
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. Beck
vocabulary vocabulary-words
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.' George Stephanopoulos
vocabulary body doe
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. Fred Frith
vocabulary interesting helping
It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese. Jason Patric
vocabulary joy messages
When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it. Jason Mraz
vocabulary accountability innovation
Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security." Evgeny Morozov
vocabulary work-out silence
I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. Muriel Rukeyser
vocabulary ballet different
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio. Kiernan Shipka
vocabulary strange strangeness
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. Kim Basinger
vocabulary challenges thank-god
Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times. Michael Tilson Thomas
vocabulary tools lenses
Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens. Michael Pollan
vocabulary language failing
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. Slash
vocabulary six language
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. P. J. O'Rourke
vocabulary giving genre
Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
vocabulary hip-hop ill
Vocabulary spills I'm ill. Nas
vocabulary
Humor is not far from my vocabulary. Edward Herrmann
vocabulary disease opponents
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. Chinua Achebe
vocabulary world noise
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music. Pierre Schaeffer
vocabulary sound corny
Sound is the vocabulary of nature. Pierre Schaeffer
vocabulary giving psychology
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. Harold Bloom