Vocabulary Building Quotes

#1. Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.

John Updike

#2. There is never anything to change but our own perspective.

Karen Casey

#3. Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek more accurate solutions, etc.

Ruby K. Payne

#4. Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#5. It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#6. I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!

Margaret Cho

#7. All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.

Roy Peter Clark

#8. I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

#9. Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Henri Nouwen

#10. I shine in tears like the sun in April.

Cyril Tourneur

#11. Today for show & tell, I've brought in some flash cards I made. Each card has a letter followed by several dashes. When I show the card, you yell out the vulgar, obscene or blasphemous word they stand for! ... Ready? ... She's such a hypocrite about building vocabulary.

Bill Watterson

#12. her essential goodness, telling her that "self-knowledge is the foundation of Religion," not self-hatred.

Megan Marshall

#13. Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

David Crystal

#14. At the time, Margaret had been very angry with God, angry that all she had left of her mother was the promise of a ring.

Diana Stevan

#15. Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

Paul Hawken

#16. The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

Montserrat Caballe

#17. Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Bjarke Ingels

#18. Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

Mary Karr

#19. Never too late for vocabulary building, he said.

Michel Faber