#vocabulary

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

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#die #forgets #names #needs #vocabulary

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#fail #must #our #term #too

I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary. ↗

— Gallagher

#know #laugh #people #their #vocabulary

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

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

#character #comes #course #differences #each

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

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#created #different #different styles #different ways #draw

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#use #varied #vocabulary #wide #wife