Quotes About Vocabulary

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

I love the English language. Words have power.

Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.

I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.

You gotta use cuss words when you don't have no intellect.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.