Vocabulary Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Sound, World, Noise

  Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete, vol. 2, n° 1, 1987.

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• In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

  Amos Oz

  Compromise

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• Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.

  John Angell James

  Mean, Fate, Errors

  John Angell James (1851). “The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality”, p.180

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• 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

  Unity, Special, Fundamentals

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• 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

  Ideas, Combination, Formal

  Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

  Charlie Daniels

  Retirement, Right Now

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Blind Spots, People, Vision

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Struggle, Profound, Modern

  "Art & Other Serious Matters" by Harold Rosenberg, University of Chicago Press, (p. 316), 1985.

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• [Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.

  Junot Diaz

  Numbers, People, Support

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

  Lister Sinclair

  Syntax, Dialect, Results

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• I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!

  Sandra Cisneros

  Reading, Thinking, Laughing

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.

  D. A. Carson

  Literary Genre, Personality, Islam

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?

  Claire Cameron

  Writing, Kids, Son

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• In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Hero, Greek, India

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• As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Light, Giving

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Curves, Law, Littles

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• Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Ordinary, Fundamentals

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• I would expunge the word "aptitude" from our vocabulary, because if you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else. And that's all that matters, because in the end, if you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Careers, Aptitude, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.

  Kehinde Wiley

  People, Giving, Sound

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Religious, Ideas, Sentiments

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

  John McCain

  Use, Language, Coarse

  "Gingrich predicts victory in Alabama, Mississippi; Sen. McCain talks foreign trouble spots, 'Game Change'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 11, 2012.

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• When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

  Lea Salonga

  Fun, Challenges, Different

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• The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle.

  Marvin Shanken

  Communication, Wine, Goal

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• 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.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Book, Ideas

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• Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.

  Herbert Spencer

  Sex, Men, Differences

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.127, VM eBooks

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