Quotes About Vocabulary

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

Understand: the greatest impediment to creativity is your impatience, the almost inevitable desire to hurry up the process, express something, and make a splash. What happens in such a case is that you do not master the basics; you have no real vocabulary at your disposal. What you mistake for being creative and distinctive is more likely an imitation of other people's style, or personal rantings that do not really express anything.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. MARK TWAIN Did

It does not take money to make money. It takes words. The difference between a rich person and a poor person is the person's vocabulary.

In the vocabulary of options traders, writing means selling.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

But when you have huge thoughts you need to use large words to specific them, haven't you?

An English speaker who has never studied French already knows around 15,000 French words!

So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.

Bollocks ," I say, with feeling. "What is 'bollocks'?" Luca asks, sounding very interested. "Never mind," I say firmly to him.

The cops say that thing:'anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone make such a hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

in New York, a cat could look at a king. Hell, a cat could get himself elected king. But in England, where people had windows reminding them of ancestors whose bones had long since gone to dust? In England, the country that had perfected the art of the devastating remark? In England, where the servants' entrance waited, where all ears were tuned for the tiniest wrong accent, where the exquisitely subtle vocabulary of Us and Them held ten thousand complicated traps, uspoken and unarguable?

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

Italians basic word chest, as tallied in a recent dictionary, totals a measly 200,000, compared to English's 600,000 (not counting technical terms). But

I hold Petrarch at leastly partly responsible for the disconcerting gap between Italian's written and spoken vocabularies. The