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#vocabulary

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.


Milan Kundera


#nostalgia #vocabulary #suffering

We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.


Pete Wentz


#lgbt #vocabulary #gay

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.


Mos Def


#art #articulate #good #good art #people

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.


Mos Def


#articulate #artist #everyday #experience #express

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.


Robert Fitzgerald


#eloquence #english #fact #in fact #inevitably

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


#biography #body #individual #island #joins

I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.


Patrick Warburton


#become #being #children #dumber #even

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 



Jarod Kintz


#aquatic #bizarre #creatures #fins #fish

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.


Adrian Belew


#box #certain #combined #developed #each

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.


Fred Frith


#does #find #fluently #grammar #language






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