Quotes About Vocabulary

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Language belongs, not to the academics, but those who use it

Damn Jeremy, you need to work on your vocabulary. So many good names to call me and the best you could come up with is bitch? Give me the salamander before you hurt yourself. Suck my dick...whore!

There was tartle, a Scottish word for the panicked pause you experience when you have to introduce someone, but you don't remember their name. There was backpafeifengesicht, a German term for a face you'd love to punch. There was gigil, a Filipino word for the urge to squeeze an item because it is unbearably cute.

In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.

I make up many words but we can go on for forever about slang words that E-40 created. That has always been one of my things since was youngster. I have always being creative with my words.

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

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.

Famosity? There must be such a word. I used it!

Why isn't the word "phonetically" spelled with an "f"?

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it.

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

The first dictionaries were glossaries of Homeric words, intended to help Romans read the Iliad and Odyssey as well as other Greek literature employing the 'archaic' Homeric vocabulary.

You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

Every field of knowledge has its own technical vocabulary.

you have to discover the meaning of a word you do not understand by using the meanings of all the other words in the context that you do understand.

Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. You (censored)—(deleted)—(omitted)—(unprintability), he roared.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

You could say 'lame duck' or you could use 'free agent.' I think they are both the same term.

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.