Quotes by Vocabulary Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation. John MacLachlan Gray vocabulary emotional regret Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them. John McPhee rocks vocabulary book I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. John McCain vocabulary language use After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence. John Ralston Saul vocabulary stars personality She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah. Jon McGregor vocabulary wonder past As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion. Jon Krakauer vocabulary mean people Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a company with a college friend where we made documentary video for museums. In that capacity, I shot, directed, edited and began to learn the vocabulary of film. Jon Spaihts vocabulary college new-york If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff. Jonathan Demme vocabulary singing people If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word. Jonathan Safran Foer misunderstood vocabulary music Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight. Josemaria Escriva vocabulary compromise fighting Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Jose Saramago communicate vocabulary knowing 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 vocabulary spirit white What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective. Joseph Brodsky vocabulary should-have men In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors Jorge Luis Borges vocabulary facts past In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. Jorge Luis Borges rivalry connotation vocabulary Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. Joseph Campbell vocabulary coercion reason Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect. Joseph Gordon-Levitt genre vocabulary giving We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones. Judith Butler vocabulary form sometimes The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary. Judith Jamison vocabulary suffering I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way. Judith Butler vocabulary important thinking «56789101112131415»