Vocabulary Quotes

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

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.

We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

I’ve developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.