#vocabulary

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese. ↗

— Jason Patric

#de niro #find #help #interesting #niro

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

#impossible #nice #nice things #only #powerful

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#exceptional #had #herself #literate #mother

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

#both #common #concerned #constructed #far

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

#communicating #everything #experienced #felt #human

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.' ↗

— Studs Terkel

#any #day #doing #going #good

I like using big words because it gets a response out of people. They say, 'Was that an insult?' Soon I'll have enough scars to make an impression as the strong, silent type. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #humor #vocabulary #funny

Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does. ↗

— Anis Mojgani

#love #vocabulary #love

The reason it’s hard for men to say “I love you” is because those three words represent 10% of the average man’s vocabulary. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#language #love #men #reason #vocabulary

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#sexism #vocabulary #humor