#vocabulary

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#basically #enormous #groove #marches #militant

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#vocabulary #word

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

— Marina Warner

#imagery #pain #pleasure #vocabulary

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#great #heels #high #high heels #i

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

— Lytton Strachey

#every #exceptions #few #french #latin

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.' ↗

— Studs Terkel

#any #day #doing #going #good

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#grammar #speech #spelling #synonyms #vocabulary

I like using big words because it gets a response out of people. They say, 'Was that an insult?' Soon I'll have enough scars to make an impression as the strong, silent type. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #humor #vocabulary #funny

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#count #die #english #entire #fingers

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#certain #confirm #formulated #implied #language