Quotes about Vocab

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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. — Woody Allen
She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caugh — Carl Sagan, Contact
When illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping away, brightness fades insidiously — Erik Pevernagie
In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and — Henry Hazlitt, Thinking as a Science
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. — A.S. Byatt
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the wh — John Dewey, How We Think
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resortin — Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant
I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound. — Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon
I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker. — Jillian Keenan, Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love
In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mr. Treadstone believed that there was always an apposite word. The English language, after all, was the richest in the — Gavin Extence, The Universe Versus Alex Woods
The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. G — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It’s a genuine vocabulary. — Soar
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension. — Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task. — Kate DiCamillo
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary. — Margaret Edson, Wit