Vocabulary Quotes - Page 19

• There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved

  Peter L. Berger

  Religious, Community, Church

  Peter L. Berger (1961). “The noise of solemn assemblies: Christian commitment and the religious establishment in America”

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• Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it.
  Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.

  Redman

  Rap, Hip Hop, Mouths

  Song: Pick It Up, Album: Muddy Waters

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• Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Selfish, Destiny

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• [The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so.

  Harry Shearer

  Mean, Class, People

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• Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

  George Mikes

  Average, Use, Fifty

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• My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

  Charles Frazier

  Biting, Opinion, Problem

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.81, Random House

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• It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.

  Fritz Maytag

  Beer, Pretentious, Knowledgeable

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• More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.

  Phyllis Rose

  Appreciation, Dark, Off The Beaten Path

  Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan

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• Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just.

  Danny Villanueva

  Believe, Causes, Persevere

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• To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

  Mos Def

  Meaningful, Jobs, Artist

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• I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

  Don Imus

  Men, Wish, He Man

  "IN THE STUDIO WITH: Don Imus; It's a Hideous Life, And You Get to Hear All About It". Interview with Charles McCord, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 1993.

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• Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Writing, Vanity, Understanding

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Yukteswar Giri, 1946.

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• I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in effect, saying that we are wrong, or we were wrong, or we're going to be wrong. I would like to take the word should out of our vocabulary forever and replace it with the word could. This word gives us a choice, and we're never wrong.

  Louise Hay

  Believe, Giving, Forever

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “Modern-Day Miracles”, p.208, Hay House, Inc

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• The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one

  Stephen King

  Hard Work, Writing, Dedication

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• My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

  Karen Russell

  Class, Dumb, My Favorite

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• The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

  Loren Eiseley

  Lying, Night, Eggs

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• Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."

  Edwidge Danticat

  Powerful, Talking, Earthquakes

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• 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

  Mad, Brain, Different

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• When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Christian, Country, Buddhist

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• Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

  Betty White

  Retirement

  "Q&A with Betty White: At 88, this dame's still game". Interview with Susan Wloszcznya, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 21, 2010.

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• The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

  Edward Abbey

  Entrepreneur, Taught, Developers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Pain, Journey

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy.
  An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.

  Mo Willems

  Sexy, Fun, Book

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• One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

  Jack Woodford

  Jobs, Writing, Firsts

  Jack Woodford (2012). “Trial and Error”, p.126, askmar publishing

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• We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Opposites, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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