Top Vocabulary Quotes

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

Vocabulary Definition

(n.) A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.

(n.) A sum or stock of words employed.

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

We live at the level of our language.

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a h...

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates and the power which destroys; the power which is benign and the power which is malign. Odd that...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this...

A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter Nike and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

Right!Right!You can get there!I can get there!You're a natural at counting to two!I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!If you can count to two, you can count to anything!If I can count to two, I can count...

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.