#vocabulary

This document outlines our plan to perpetrate insurance fraud, insider trading, and character assassination. ...hopefully tripling our paycheck on this job. Okay, see? Those words I understand just fine. Use them more often. -Lieutenant Massey Reynstein & Captain Tagon ↗

— Howard Tayler

#money #plans #vocabulary #money

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. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#vocabulary #words #technology

We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes. ↗

— Pete Wentz

#lgbt #vocabulary #gay

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents. ↗

— Betty Hart

#stimulation #vocabulary #education

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#biography #body #individual #island #joins

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#dependence #different #different meaning #different people #energy

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#aquatic #bizarre #creatures #fins #fish

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#failure #misused #our #pressure #start

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#vocabulary #word

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