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Vocabulary Quotes

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Work Jazz Vocabulary Out Work Out

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Words Me Feeling Kind Vocabulary

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

Mind Map Vocabulary Psychology Us

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

Society Profit Race Human Vocabulary

I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.

Good Book Year Same Vocabulary Big

Losing is not in my vocabulary.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Losing Vocabulary

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

White Africa Rhythm Vocabulary Used

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

Brittany Murphy

Tired Vocabulary Word

If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.

Suzanne Brockmann

World You Gay Kid Vocabulary See

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Mother Person She Vocabulary Herself

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

Light Experience Spiritual Vocabulary

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Matter Vocabulary Well

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

Laurieann Gibson

Me Artist Entertainment Vocabulary

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Culture Hip-Hop Vocabulary Through

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

H. P. Lovecraft

Reading Important Always Vocabulary

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

Jerry Della Femina

Small Fast Vocabulary Move Around

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Risk Vocabulary Existence Word Very

My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word.

Miriam Margolyes

Think Vocabulary Expert Word Vast

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

Man Wishes Vocabulary He Stern

For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.

Daily Words Tiger Boy Vocabulary

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

Community Values Vocabulary Involved

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

Lytton Strachey

Vocabulary Straight Word Exceptions

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary.

Vocabulary Fail Big Must Our Too

Fear doesn't enter into my vocabulary. Fear is the gateway to the next step in my development.

Catherine Oxenberg

Fear Step Development Vocabulary

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