Quotes Tagged With :vocabulary

Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds....

We live at the level of our language.

Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the....

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name....

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates....

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

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make....

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse....

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.