Famous Vocabulary Quotes

I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.' ~ George Stephanopoulos

I don't want to be famous for being famous. ~ Kelli O'Hara

The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being. ~ Frederick Lenz

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. ~ Elizabeth Taylor

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ~ Van Morrison

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop. ~ T. Geronimo Johnson

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. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary. ~ Tamora Pierce

The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary. ~ Robert Cheeke

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary. ~ Horace Greeley

Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress. ~ Bergen Evans

Humor is not far from my vocabulary. ~ Edward Herrmann

When Internet parlance finds its way into our accepted vocabulary, it becomes a cliché. ~ Paul Babicki

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate. ~ Anna Deavere Smith

Fear isn't in my vocabulary. ~ Ernst Happel

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. ~ Winston Churchill

Shortcoming shouldn't be in Longman's vocabulary. ~ Natalya Vorobyova

We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future. ~ Jim Rohn

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. ~ Karen Russell

The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about two thousand words. (Even a well-educated person has a speaking vocabulary of approximately nine thousand words.) ~ Judith C. Waller

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous. ~ Bo Burnham

Never too late for vocabulary building, he said. ~ Michel Faber

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary. ~ Jamie Dimon

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so
fleeting ~ David Levithan

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness ~ Glenn Close

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. ~ Mos Def

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive. ~ Jennifer Senior

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. ~ Lee Konitz

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. ~ Peter Carey

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous. ~ Dallas Clayton

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary. ~ Margaret Edson

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence. ~ Slash

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame. ~ Johnathon Schaech

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. ~ Mike Tyson

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice. ~ Seth Godin

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. ~ Betty White

When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it. ~ Jason Mraz

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't. ~ Trey Parker

Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you."
"I doubt it. ~ Madeline Miller

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. ~ Noomi Rapace

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. ~ Dolph Lundgren

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. ~ James Nicoll

Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A cornice on the Third National Bank. ~ Allen Tate

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese. ~ Jason Patric

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. ~ Lynn Johnston

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. ~ Lytton Strachey

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try. ~ Pamela Anderson

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. ~ John McCain

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. ~ Tanya Tucker

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. ~ Yves Klein

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary. ~ Brittany Murphy

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary. ~ Judith Jamison

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens. ~ Michael Pollan

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. ~ Roscoe Mitchell

I preferred the simplest vocabulary. ~ Louise Gluck

I'm a vocabulary nerd. ~ Sam Trammell

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!' ~ Dorothea Dix

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary. ~ Jack Canfield

There is this power that comes with being famous. ~ Rod Stewart

He who would enrich and enlarge his stock of words must soak and tan his mind constantly in the vats of literature. ~ Dale Carnegie

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development ~ Stephen D. Krashen

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied. ~ Christopher Monckton

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

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. ~ Rachel Sklar

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. ~ Robert Fitzgerald

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent. ~ Kat Dennings

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. ~ Charlie Kaufman

I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary. ~ Gallagher

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary. ~ Stephen D. Krashen

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means ~ Doris Humphrey

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times. ~ Michael Tilson Thomas

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director. ~ Andrew Lau

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

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary. ~ David Longstreth

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others. ~ Krista Tippett

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. ~ Ada Louise Huxtable

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

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. ~ Matthew McConaughey

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. ~ David Crystal

As you can see, the words fair play are not in my vocabulary. Well, they are in my vocabulary, but only to say that they aren't. ~ Scott Seegert

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. ~ Tom Felton

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. ~ James Merrill

Milton's learned vocabulary [ ... ] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child. ~ John Broadbent

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. ~ Jimenez Lai

It was never about winning medals or being famous. ~ Nancy Kerrigan

Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack. ~ Andy Stanley

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily. ~ Zig Ziglar

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th]. ~ Roopal Patel

We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized. ~ Astra Taylor

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. ~ James Carville

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. ~ William Hurt

You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the same way, you can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better. ~ Rudolf Flesch

A picture is worth 1,000 megapixels. High-definition (HD) TV images are used to camouflage some writers' low-definition (LD) vocabulary. ~ John R. Dallas Jr.

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone. ~ Stephen D. Krashen

The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with. ~ Damian Loeb

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. ~ Robin Sharma

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself. ~ Vanessa Paradis

Sound is the vocabulary of nature. ~ Pierre Schaeffer