Quotes About Vocab

#1. Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.)

A.S. King

#2. I love vocab. It's like spelunking in a cave you've been in your whole life and discovering a thousand new tunnels.

A.S. King

#3. Go read a book you illiterate son of a bitch and step up your vocab

Bun B.

#4. I hate phrases like that. "Jesus vocab," El would call them. Things you learn in church that are hammered into you until they're so normal that you expect everyone else who doesn't go to church to know what you mean.

Julie Murphy

#5. Damien," Shaunee said. "Again you are getting on my damn - "
- last nerve with your unending vocab bullshit," Erin finished for her.

Kristin Cast

#6. There were entire days where I did nothing but cry; others where I felt like I'd swallowed a lead plate; some more where I worked really hard at going through the motions of getting dressed and making my bed and studying my vocab words because it was easier than doing anything else.

Jodi Picoult

#7. We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

Kristin Hersh

#8. He hasn't really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he's starting to, a little.

Colleen Chen

#9. No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#10. Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#11. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

George Herbert

#12. I'll go where you go.
A simple statement that feels like a blanket.

Gayle Forman

#13. When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

Patch Adams

#14. There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

Truman Capote

#15. Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.

Larry David

#16. What they thought was important. I don't judge what other people do, many ...

Kathy Ireland

#17. Never, ever think that people will do something just because it is the "right" thing to do.

Steven D. Levitt

#18. Common knowledge never attracts real awe and admiration

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

Whittaker Chambers