Quotes About Vocabulary

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

The poetry of speech.

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

modern spoken Tamil is astonishingly rich in Sanskrit loan words. Indeed, there may well be more straight Sanskrit in Tamil than in the Sanskrit-derived north Indian vernaculars.

The realization that Jews and/or Christians first used all of the technical religious vocabulary of the Qur'an and all of the forms of the Five Pillars of Islam (except references to Muhammad and Mecca) encouraged them to develop a liturgy using biblical content but Muslim forms.

Sink-searching meant I had to expand my French vocabulary yet again. There aren't just sinks in France: there are éviers, lave-mains, bacs à lave, bassins, vasques, and lavabos. Each type of sink has its own raison d'être.

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

My English is not very good-looking.

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

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

What's another word for thesaurus?

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

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

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

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

Do u sometimes feel dumb or duffer are inadequate words to describe some people?How about DUMFER?

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.