Quotes by Vocabulary Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. A. S. Byatt vocabulary lines circles As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean. Aaron Siskind vocabulary photography mean Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. Ada Louise Huxtable vocabulary steel stones The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. Adam Phillips vocabulary stupid self As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. Adrian Belew appreciate vocabulary technique So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary. Albert Hadley vocabulary design past We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. Alberto Manguel vocabulary technology years All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. Aldous Huxley vocabulary lasts war Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. Aldous Huxley vocabulary study play Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience. Alexander MacLaren type vocabulary may I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try. Alexandra Fuller vocabulary journey thinking The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. Alexis de Tocqueville vocabulary giving-up party 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 vocabulary failing thinking 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 vocabulary made thinking Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually. Alicia Keys vocabulary Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Allen Tate hermes mortality vocabulary For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. Ambrose Bierce vocabulary names men In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life". Amos Oz vocabulary compromise Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. Amos Oz vocabulary people thinking The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border. Amos Oz vocabulary israel ideas 1234567891011»