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Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it.
Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it. — Redman
Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it. — Redman
Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
— Alicia Keys
Use the muscle in your skull, and then the one in your pants. Impress me with your vocabulary, and then your sexual attentiveness.
— Jasinda Wilder
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.
— Paul Fry
Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
— Michel Thomas
I preferred the simplest vocabulary.
— Louise Gluck
When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
— Tushar Upreti
A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.
— Malorie Blackman
I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
— Tanya Tucker
The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.
— Mark Twain
Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.
— Wilfred Funk
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
— Carmen Agra Deedy
Okay is no longer a word in my vocabulary.
— Victoria Aveyard
This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.
— Deyth Banger
Faith' and 'science' inhabit totally different spheres, and do not overlap, even to share the same vocabulary.
— Joyce Carol Oates
have a large vocabulary." His tone's gone deliciously
— Magda Alexander
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
It occurred to me that Australians are so surrounded with danger that they have evolved an entirely new vocabulary to deal with it.
— Bill Bryson
Ban the words "always" and never from your vocabulary
— Karen Salmansohn
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.
— Erin McKean
Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident
— John Berger
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
— Milan Kundera
I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.
— Rebecca Goldstein
Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.
— Colleen Hoover
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
— Barbara Kruger
Now Lucy sighed on his behalf. Communication must be difficult when your ass whittled the opposite sex's vocabulary down to one word.
— Tessa Bailey
How many times do I need to repeat the word for it to join your vocabulary?
— Alexandra Bracken
For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.
— Laurieann Gibson
Changed way of speaking or using a different vocabulary, peculiar statements, extreme reactions to praise, blame and criticism.
— Anthony Wilkenson
I'm a vocabulary nerd.
— Sam Trammell
If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.
— Suzanne Brockmann
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
— Mike Tyson
As you can see, the words fair play are not in my vocabulary. Well, they are in my vocabulary, but only to say that they aren't.
— Scott Seegert
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.
— Jorge Luis Borges
When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.
— Marilynne Robinson
Satan is so deceptive! He likes to borrow Christian vocabulary, but he does not use the Christian dictionary!
— Warren W. Wiersbe
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation
— Robert Frost
I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.
— Jillian Keenan
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
— Josemaria Escriva
I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
— Kim Basinger
Just because I have the vocabulary of a well educated sailor, doesn't mean I'm not a lady.
— Someecards
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
— Alexander Theroux
I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.
— Vince Young
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'
— George Stephanopoulos
Foul language will earn you a recitation that will grow your vocabulary.
— Rachel A. Marks
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
— Dante Alighieri
Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
— Rajneesh
Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.)
— A.S. King
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
— Robert H. Schuller
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.
— Kevin Rudd
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
— Bjarke Ingels
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
— Sinclair Lewis
Impossible' isn't in my vocabulary, said Serge.
— Tim Dorsey
I ain't no author, man ... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
— Steve Harvey
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head - by reading.
— Jim Trelease
Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
— Timothy Snyder
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
— Frank Herbert
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
— Lynn Johnston
Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour: it was her vocabulary!
— Patrick Hamilton
Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.
— Betty Goodwin
Retirement is not in my vocabulary.
— Betty White
You trip over a word while carrying
a tray of vocabulary out to the pool
only to discover that broken glass
is a good topic. — Billy Collins
a tray of vocabulary out to the pool
only to discover that broken glass
is a good topic. — Billy Collins
[politicians are] like toddlers arguing over who gets the candy, but with a better vocabulary and less whacking each other with toys.
— Garon Whited
There were lots of words which had fallen out of my vocabulary, living abroad so long.
— Henry Miller
Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.
— Ross Macdonald
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.
— T. Geronimo Johnson
The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.
— Frederick Lenz
Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. "You (censored) - (deleted) - (omitted) - (unprintability)", he roared.
— Murray Leinster
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
— Robert Fitzgerald
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
— Samuel Johnson
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
— Sara Sheridan
Sometimes the acutest of agonies are difficult to find expression in the given vocabulary: words fail but pain prevails.
— Girdhar Joshi
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.
— Alicia Keys
What good is a vocabulary that isn't used?
— Neil Gaiman
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
— Margaret Edson