Vocabulary Quotes

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

Alessandro Michele

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Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

Zig Ziglar

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Donald Trump was sharp; he was very perceptive. He was engaging. He had this expansive vocabulary, and he very seldom took breaks.

Omarosa Manigault Newman

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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

Aaron Lazar

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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

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Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.

Tom Sturridge

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The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Judith Jamison

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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

Dorothea Lange

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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

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English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Richard Lederer

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I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

Keith Urban

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In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.

Ethan Canin

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I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

Zola Jesus

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.

Damian Loeb

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I am a bit of a dynamic personality and have the ability to use my vocabulary in some creative ways.

Mauro Ranallo

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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

Robert Fitzgerald

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The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.

Joshua Cohen

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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Pierre Schaeffer

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Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

Richard Dawkins

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I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

Kiernan Shipka

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People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

Erin McKean

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