Top Vocabulary Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Vocabulary quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Joan Miro
I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.
- Joan Miro
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Jane Seymour
If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."
- Jane Seymour
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Richard Brautigan
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.
- Richard Brautigan
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Blaise Cendrars
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.
- Blaise Cendrars
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Richard Rorty
Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.
- Richard Rorty
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Michael Tilson Thomas
Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.
- Michael Tilson Thomas
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Margaret Edson
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
- Margaret Edson
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Louise Glück
I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.
- Louise Glück
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Pierre Schaeffer
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.
- Pierre Schaeffer
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Slash
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
- Slash
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Amos Oz
In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".
- Amos Oz
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Muriel Rukeyser
I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
- Muriel Rukeyser
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Ludwig Wittgenstein
All I know is what I have words for.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Sanford Meisner
WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.
- Sanford Meisner
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Ada Louise Huxtable
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
- Ada Louise Huxtable
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Judith Butler
We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.
- Judith Butler
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Betty Goodwin
Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.
- Betty Goodwin
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Lister Sinclair
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
- Lister Sinclair
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Duane Chapman
I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.
- Duane Chapman
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Edward Villella
I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"
- Edward Villella
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Ernst Happel
Fear isn't in my vocabulary.
- Ernst Happel
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of George Stephanopoulos
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'
- George Stephanopoulos
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of John Humphrys
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.
- John Humphrys
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Hilary Devey
Failure was not an option. It just wasn't in my vocabulary.
- Hilary Devey
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Marcia Siegel
The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.
- Marcia Siegel
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Michelle Monaghan
I will say that is a quality I love about great directors, which is the ability to give you one word that can inspire you. I appreciate a director with a very good vocabulary. There are so many directors that I have worked with that can give you one word.
- Michelle Monaghan
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Constance Hale
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them.
- Constance Hale
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Edward Herrmann
Humor is not far from my vocabulary.
- Edward Herrmann
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Paul Crouch
I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord.
- Paul Crouch
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Ralph Rucci
Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season.
- Ralph Rucci
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Maya Beiser
I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.
- Maya Beiser
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Wilfred Funk
Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.
- Wilfred Funk
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Jonathan Demme
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.
- Jonathan Demme
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Vince Young
I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.
- Vince Young
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Ari Marmell
A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.
- Ari Marmell
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Phyllis George
Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will'.
- Phyllis George
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Chuck Thompson
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.
- Chuck Thompson
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Horace Greeley
The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
- Horace Greeley
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Israel Shenker
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.
- Israel Shenker
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Tim Gunn
Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.
- Tim Gunn
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Michel Thomas
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
- Michel Thomas
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Kenneth E. Iverson
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important.
- Kenneth E. Iverson
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Kehinde Wiley
There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.
- Kehinde Wiley
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Bernard Lonergan
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.
- Bernard Lonergan
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Ian Hacking
From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.
- Ian Hacking
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Taylor Hackford
As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.
- Taylor Hackford
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Ted Lyons
I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
- Ted Lyons
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Laura Huxley
Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.
- Laura Huxley
Collection: Vocabulary
Image of Michael Snow
People's vocabulary has expanded.
- Michael Snow
Collection: Vocabulary