#vocabulary

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#impossible #nice #nice things #only #powerful

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ↗

— Marina Warner

#imagery #pain #pleasure #vocabulary

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#enlarge #give #good #good writing #i

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#communicating #everything #experienced #felt #human

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#box #certain #combined #developed #each

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

— Lee Konitz

#jazz #jazz players #least #most #out

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity. ↗

— Vera Wang

#book #both #creativity #define #dresses

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly. ↗

— Pat Mastelotto

#buddies #converse #create #develop #enjoy

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

#could #fascinating #fit #hope #i

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#different #i #i always #match #musical