Quotes of Vocabulary - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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

“ Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ It's important to read because it's really good for your. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing. ”

- Emma Watson

“ Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice. ”

- Unknown

“ Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice. ”

- Unknown

“ The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them. ”

- Unknown

“ Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them. ”

- Unknown

“ The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. ”

- Larry Flynt

“ Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. ”

- Robert Schuller

“ We must remove the word "impossible" from our vocabulary. ”

- Bernie S. Siegel

“ Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ You can be a dreamer and a doer too if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible! ”

- Robert Schuller

“ If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ”

- Steven Wright

“ Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them! ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Malcolm X

“ One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or literary diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive. ”

- James Agee

“ The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. ”

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pre-test your product with consumers, and pre-test your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. ”

- David Ogilvy

“ The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ”

- Marina Warner

“ The word can't is not in the successful person's vocabulary. ”

- Unknown

“ Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk. ”

- Unknown

“ Try to eliminate the word SHOULD from your vocabulary. And try doing so without replacing it with OUGHT or YOU BETTER. ”

- Unknown
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