Vernacular Language Quotes

#1. The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

#2. Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

Hans Kung

#3. I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#4. Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

Charles Perrault

#5. In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

Pope John XXIII

#7. I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on - and then I'll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber.

Viswanathan Anand

#8. The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time
is he who shall create poems in stone.

Louis Sullivan

#9. Nglish teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.

Jeff Anderson

#10. The Pharisees deliberately avoided the Late form of Biblical Hebrew (LBH), which is the language of the Bible written after the exile, presenting their teaching in the language of the spoken vernacular.

Angel Saenz-Badillos

#11. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.

George Carlin

#12. If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.

Steven Adler

#13. Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Gautama Buddha

#14. ...unless you value yourself, you won't have the motivation to exercise, get enough sleep, eat healthfully, and care for yourself.

Doreen Virtue

#15. There may be trouble. Anybody goes in there needs to know how to handle a gun. Do you?"

Lovecraft angled her head back until she was looking at Harrelson down her nose. "I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun." pg. 221.

Jonathan L. Howard

#16. I liked to dye my hair as a teenager. I dyed it a lot of different colours: blue, red, pink.

Lorelei Linklater

#17. Sometimes people are often confused between attitude and style. Nevermind, I'm Awesome.

Yugesh Ralli

#18. I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for ... older people ... and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

Julie Christie

#19. To use folk language, vernacular in a manner neither exotic nor comic, neither minstrelized nor microscopically analyzed.

Toni Morrison

#20. What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!

Pete La Roca