vocabulary

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
5e91e0c	"The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return."	vocabulary nostalgia	Milan Kundera
688f4e8	One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.	writing dress-up embarrassing vocabulary style	Stephen King
d4983d2	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.	words vocabulary	Alberto Manguel
f07ca60	"Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?"	stupidity vocabulary	Terry Pratchett
ceaec67	There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.	precision vocabulary language	Chris Gardner
911cf85	I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.	humor vocabulary	Jack Vance
e42d378	Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this very serious difficulty lies in the fact that human beings are basically made of clay, which, as the encyclopedias helpfully explain, is a detrital sedimentary rock made up of tiny mineral fragments measuring one two hundred and fifty-sixths of a millimeter. Until now, despite long linguistic study, no one has managed to come up with a name for this.	vocabulary	José Saramago
681ca3c	A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.	reading learning vocabulary school	J.R.R. Tolkien
b141f4d	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.	word-choice rhetoric vocabulary persuasion	Frank Herbert
59f3045	In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates and the power which destroys; the power which is benign and the power which is malign. Odd that we have retained in our vocabulary the word for dangerous power, taboo, and have lost mana.	vocabulary	Madeleine L'Engle
767590c	"Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue."	reading inspiration word-choice rhetoric maturation vocabulary	Harold Bloom
6f9d9ff	"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."	vocabulary perspective	Rebecca Goldstein
f981cd5	Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.	writing vocabulary trouble	Davis Miller

5e91e0c

"The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return."

vocabulary nostalgia

Milan Kundera

688f4e8

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

writing dress-up embarrassing vocabulary style

Stephen King

d4983d2

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.

words vocabulary

Alberto Manguel

f07ca60

"Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?"

stupidity vocabulary

Terry Pratchett

ceaec67

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

precision vocabulary language

Chris Gardner

911cf85

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

humor vocabulary

Jack Vance

e42d378

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this very serious difficulty lies in the fact that human beings are basically made of clay, which, as the encyclopedias helpfully explain, is a detrital sedimentary rock made up of tiny mineral fragments measuring one two hundred and fifty-sixths of a millimeter. Until now, despite long linguistic study, no one has managed to come up with a name for this.

vocabulary

José Saramago

681ca3c

A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.

reading learning vocabulary school

J.R.R. Tolkien

b141f4d

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.

word-choice rhetoric vocabulary persuasion

Frank Herbert

59f3045

In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates and the power which destroys; the power which is benign and the power which is malign. Odd that we have retained in our vocabulary the word for dangerous power, taboo, and have lost mana.

vocabulary

Madeleine L'Engle

767590c

"Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue."

reading inspiration word-choice rhetoric maturation vocabulary

Harold Bloom

6f9d9ff

"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."

vocabulary perspective

Rebecca Goldstein

f981cd5

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

writing vocabulary trouble

Davis Miller