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Quotations regarding 'Vocabulary'

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Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.
Margaret Mahy, New Zealander Author (1936-  )
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X, American Activist (1925-1965)
We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
Pat Mastelotto, American Musician (1955-  )
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
James Merrill, American Poet (1926-1995)
I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.
Roscoe Mitchell, American Composer (1940-  )
Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.
Brittany Murphy, American Actress (1977-2009)
Losing is not in my vocabulary.
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch Athlete (1976-  )
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, English Businessman (1911-1999)
It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.
Jason Patric, American Actor (1966-  )
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
John Charles Polanyi, Canadian Scientist (1929-  )
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
Michael Polanyi, Hungarian Scientist (1891-1976)
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Christopher Reeve, American Actor (1952-2004)
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
Meg Ryan, American Actress (1961-  )
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.
Edward Sapir, American Scientist (1884-1939)
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
Jose Saramago, Portuguese Writer (1922-  )
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author (1893-1957)
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
Pierre Schaeffer, French Composer (1910-1995)
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
Lytton Strachey, English Critic (1880-1932)
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
Tanya Tucker, American Musician (1958-  )
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Derek Walcott, Trinidadian Playwright (1930-  )
 
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