Quotes About Vocabulary

There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk about spiritual experiences using the vocabulary of light: Saul on the road to Damascus, near-death experiences, samadhi or the light-filled void of Buddhist enlightenment.

If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

Everybody kind of always bags on me because I use the word 'awesome' a lot.

It doesn't take long to learn basic English.

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane—as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout—there may be no more potent force than religion.

She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jews have four hundred for schmuck.

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

Grammar used to make a good exercise . . . before the days of crosswords.

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?

Thus, all the articulated visions of prophecy are nothing more than ways of representing an abstract, formless, spiritual reality in the vocabulary of human language; although, to be sure, there may also be a revelation of an angel in quite ordinary form, clothed in some familiar vessel and manifested as a "normal" phenomenon in nature.

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

dissociate, disassociate Both are possible, but dissociate is more usual, and is recommended.

I'm a real big fan of words.

I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.

Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.

I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.

Il bambino impara semplicemente parlando e ascoltando.

MOYERS: A poem? CAMPBELL: I mean a vocabulary in the form not of words but of acts and adventures, which connotes something transcendent of the action here, so that you always feel in accord with the universal being.

In the works of Shakespeare, the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.