Quotes with vocabulary

  • Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
  • To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

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  • Harry Mathews Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Booker T. Washington We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bjarke Ingels Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Kim Basinger I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
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  • Annie Leibovitz I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Malcolm X If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Evelyn Waugh One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Tommy Lasorda Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
    Tommy Lasorda
    American Baseball player (1927 - 2021)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Louisa May Alcott Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • David Ogilvy The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Marina Warner The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
    Signs & wonders (2003)
    Marina Warner
    British writer and feminist (1946 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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