Vocabulary Quotes - Page 16

• There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Cosmos, Deeds

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same vocabulary and syntax as any widgetmaking industry. Books are reformulated as 'product' - like screwdrivers or flea-bombs or soap - and the majority of writers are perceived as typists with bad attitudes.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Attitude, Book, Soap

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• The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

  Horace Greeley

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• I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.

  Bobby Bowden

  Hurt, Character, Nfl

  Bobby Bowden, Bill Smith (1994). “More than just a game”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  James Merrill

  Fit, Arthur, Schemes

  James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

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• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Names, Psychology, Alchemist

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• For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Artist, Dancer, Entertainment

  "Laurieann Gibson: ‘Backup dancer’ isn’t even in my vocabulary". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 27, 2011.

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• I ain't no author, man . . . my writing skills are not of "New York Times" best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

  Steve Harvey

  New York, Believe, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Failing, Erase

  "Alicia Keys Talks Failure, The Anatomy Of A 'Girl On Fire' For HuffPost's #nofilter". Interview with Kiki Von Glinow, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Talking, Numbers, Sidelines

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

  Matthew McConaughey

  People, Surprise, Linguistics

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• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  Camille Paglia

  Song, Emotional, Space

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• The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Giving, Understanding

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• Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

  Jose Saramago

  Knowing, Communicate, Recognizing

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• Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance.

  Jay Leno

  Issues, Tolerance, Week

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• When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

  Meg Ryan

  High Heels, Speak, Paragraph

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• I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary.

  Steve Martin

  Bed, Wake Up, No Fear

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

  Nadia Giosia

  Beautiful, Smart, Thinking

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• I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

  John Frusciante

  Helping, I've Learned, Theory

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• Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

  Anna Friel

  Mother, Pain, Sleep

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

  Eli Roth

  Hate, School, Talking

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2007.

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• So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.

  Laura Kipnis

  Love Is, Order, Like Love

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• I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Important, Different

  Source: ilga.org

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• I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.

  Leonard Cohen

  Biblical, Landscape, Today

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• It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets us see that our lives have always been more complex than traditional categories allow. So, I think, you know, maybe the introduction of new words permits us to rethink what we've taken for granted about what forms bodies take, what the name is for certain kinds of sexual, intimate relations, how we think of a life.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Reality, Thinking

  Source: ilga.org

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