#vocabulary

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

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

#failure #misused #our #pressure #start

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#basically #enormous #groove #marches #militant

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#audience #catchy #concerts #depth #effects

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

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ↗

— Marina Warner

#imagery #pain #pleasure #vocabulary

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

— Lynn Johnston

#exceptional #had #herself #literate #mother

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#enlarge #give #good #good writing #i

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