Quotes by Vocabulary Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens. Michael Pollan lenses vocabulary tools The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified. Michel Foucault psychics vocabulary strong I will say that is a quality I love about great directors, which is the ability to give you one word that can inspire you. I appreciate a director with a very good vocabulary. There are so many directors that I have worked with that can give you one word. Michelle Monaghan appreciate vocabulary giving I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good. Michel de Montaigne vocabulary self time I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. Mike Tyson vocabulary literature art Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now. Milan Kundera vocabulary together too-late They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what concerns them everything has to be remade starting from basic principles. They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened. Monique Wittig vocabulary shapes reality Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. Mos Def vocabulary people art I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. Muriel Rukeyser work-out vocabulary silence I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and is never heard on stage. . . . I'm better at writing than I am at organizing [political action]. SLAUGHTER CITY is my small contribution. If it gives people a voice it is worth something. So often we forget what we are no longer hearing. Naomi Wallace vocabulary cities writing Vocabulary spills I'm ill. Nas hip-hop vocabulary ill Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with. Nelson Shanks vocabulary artist real I would expunge the word "aptitude" from our vocabulary, because if you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else. And that's all that matters, because in the end, if you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Neil deGrasse Tyson aptitude vocabulary careers There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. Neil deGrasse Tyson memorization vocabulary school When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist." Nick Offerman vocabulary teacher hands I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. Og Mandino vocabulary phrases greatness The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. P. C. Cast vocabulary evil war The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. P. J. O'Rourke vocabulary humor funny I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try. Pamela Anderson vocabulary trying thinking As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them. Pablo Neruda vocabulary light heart «1011121314151617181920»