Quotes and Sayings About Vocabulary
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Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
-- A. S. Byatt -
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.
-- Aaron SiskindSource : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
-- Adrian Belew -
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So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary.
-- Albert Hadley -
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
-- Alicia Keys -
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The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
-- Amos Oz -
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries
-- Andre NickatinaSource : Song: My Rap World, Album: Tears of a Clown, 1999
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The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.
-- Andy Stanley -
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
-- Anne McCaffrey -
I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
-- Anthony Burgess -
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Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.
-- Antonya NelsonSource : Antonya Nelson (1999). “Nobody's Girl: A Novel”, Scribner
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A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.
-- Ari Marmell -
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. "I can't..." should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.
-- Arnold SchwarzeneggerSource : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall (1993). “Arnold”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
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The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.
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I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
-- Artur Davis -
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
-- Barbara Kruger -
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
-- Benjamin Carson -
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.
-- Bergen EvansSource : Bergen Evans (1963). “The word-a-day vocabulary builder”, Ballantine Books
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It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.
-- Bernard Lonergan -
Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.
-- Betty GoodwinSource : Yolande Racine, Betty Goodwin, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario (1987). “Betty Goodwin: oeuvres de 1971 à 1987”, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal = Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
-- Betty White -
Conservatives or better, pro- corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like " progress ," " opportunity ," and " individualism " into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right ... This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
-- Bill Moyers -
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Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress...
-- Blaise Cendrars -
I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.
-- Bobby Bowden