#vocabulary

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

— Milan Kundera

#nostalgia #vocabulary #suffering

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all. ↗

— Todd Barry

#am #dennis #dennis miller #guess #i

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

— Robert Fitzgerald

#eloquence #english #fact #in fact #inevitably

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

— Tanya Tucker

#express #feeling #had #i #kind

I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#become #being #children #dumber #even

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

— Pamela Anderson

#moderation #think #try #vocabulary #which

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. ↗

— Artur Davis

#black and white #i #i think #most #our

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#fail #must #our #term #too

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#created #different #different styles #different ways #draw

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#character #comes #course #differences #each