Vernacular Quotes
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
— Hans Kung
The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
— Gautama Buddha
Ever notice how many expressions carry over from queers to con men? Like 'raise,' letting someone know you are in the same line?
— William S. Burroughs
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
— Sufjan Stevens
In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'
— Herman Cain
The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.
— Robin Wright
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
— David Antin
You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.
— Andrew Motion
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
— Calvin Trillin
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
To use folk language, vernacular in a manner neither exotic nor comic, neither minstrelized nor microscopically analyzed.
— Toni Morrison
no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.
— Genevieve Cogman
You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.
— Georgia Harkness
Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular.
— Erik Larson
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
— Gautama Buddha
Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.
— John Adams
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'
— Dave Chappelle
I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.
— Amy Richards
I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.
— Aaron Rose
for the vernacular which he was adept at converting
— Jennifer Kloester
All of the modern counseling vernacular is really not dealing with the root issue of idolatry. Someone or something's preeminent rather than God.
— Mark Driscoll
In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.
— John Van Hamersveld
You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
— Mark Twain
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
— Michael Gruber
I was done with him giving me space. I wanted a new kind of comfort from him. Specifically in the form of orgasms.
— Samantha Young
The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.
— Michael Schultz
This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.
— Neil Gaiman
I am not inclined to use hip-hop vernacular often, but there are times when, like French, it just better expresses the sentiment of the moment
— Christopher Moore
Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon