Great Vocabulary Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Henry was aware he had a great vocabulary. It was not the same thing as having the words you needed to express yourself...sounding like you were saying what you felt was not the same as actually pulling it off.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underpriviledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.

Jules Feiffer

#4. Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

Kevin Rudd

#5. I never knew up to that time that God loved us so much. This heart of mine began to thaw out; I could not keep back the tears. I just drank it in ... I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in the world and that is love.

Dwight L. Moody

#6. Let's be best friends," Nora said. "We can braid each other's hair and murder runaways together.

Tiffany Reisz

#7. Children observe everything in nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.

J. Michael Straczynski

#9. In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#10. Eat anything before you started drinking?" Xander asked.
"Fuck off."
"I can tell that vodka is helping you make great decisions."
Javier glared. "Fuck off."
"Has your vocabulary been reduced to two words now?"
"No. Please fuck off.

Shayla Black

#11. It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness
however temporary, however flimsy
of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

Alice Munro

#12. Throw stones, make waves. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Vikki Wakefield

#13. Like a wild flower; she spent her days, allowing herself to grow, not many knew of her struggle, but eventually all; knew of her light.

Nikki Rowe

#14. People in the United States are highly transient. Families move from state to state. So why do we take a full year - in some states, two years - to study state history? It takes time away from more important topics.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#15. There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

John Dewey

#16. Living exists when life lives through us ... life is a living now!

Bruce Lee

#17. Hell couldn't be all bad if it had jewelry.

P.C. Cast

#18. Ironic, is it not, that the great Divinicus Nex cowers in fear from that which should be her fated prey? A decidedly diametric circumstance.
What? It's irritating when the monster hunting you has a better vocabulary than your own. Maybe it could do my eulogy?

A&E Kirk

#19. The more you say the more people know about you, make it a point that you say the most sense as little as possible

Morena Baloyi

#20. I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.

Sara Paxton

#21. I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

Cynthia Nixon

#22. I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Tom Waits

#23. I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Elizabeth Taylor