33 Quotations with Vocabulary.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bish ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 4. Christopher Reeve: We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of ...
- 5. Mark Twain: An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've d ...
- 6. Gaston Bachelard: I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me ...
- 7. Jules Feiffer: I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then t ...
- 8. Kim Basinger: I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabul ...
- 9. Malcolm X: If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary ...
- 10. Thomas Szasz: Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has real ...
- 11. Thomas B. Macaulay: Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest ...
- 12. Jonathan Raban: Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to desc ...
- 13. Evelyn Waugh: One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertiliz ...
- 14. Tommy Lasorda: Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of ...
- 15. Louisa May Alcott: Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
- 16. Louisa May Alcott: Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
- 17. Harry Mathews: Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints -- the rules that run us. Lan ...
- 18. Alexis de Tocqueville: The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
- 19. David Ogilvy: The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pre-tes ...
- 20. Marina Warner: The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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