Quotessence
Home / Topics / Vocabulary Quotes

Vocabulary Quotes

Browse 533 quotes about Vocabulary.

Related topics

LanguageIfsThinkingPeopleWayWritingUseShouldKnowsMenDifferentGivingTermWorldFeelsHas BeensKindMeanNeedsTryingArtBookFeelingsFirstsImportantSoundStillsI CanVocabulary WordsWantWellsGrammarHelpingBelieveCertainHumansMadeMindSometimesStoriesUsedIdeasLiteratureMayReadingSpeakStyleTalkingArtistChildrenDoeFailingFormLittlesMightNamesQualityRealityResultsSaidTwoWholeCenturyChristianCommonCultureEventsExampleForceHalfHandsIndividualMetaphorMotivationalPastRememberRemoveSelfSimpleSpiritStudentsStuffSyntaxYears

Vocabulary Quotes

“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”

LongUsePoetryPurposeNaturalDifferencesSimpleEmotionalPoetCreaturesLogicTreatsDatingGreekProsePoeticAcademicVocabularyPreferenceBricksFormationDefianceBuilderLiving CreaturesUnemotionalTime Poetry
Book:Some speculations on literature, history, and religion
Create image

“[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.”

NeedsGivingEndsRealityNamesCan DoOrdinaryExtraordinaryAffairInvisibleRitualArtificialGesturesCostumesVocabularyAssuranceAstonishingSolemnPropsSceneryUnification
Author:Barbara Myerhoff
Create image

“One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.”

IfsThinkingWorldWayProblemLanguageForceLevelsIssuesParticularTvsLowsWideAbstractComplexityVocabularyOutlookGrammarWatching TvLow LevelAbstract Thinking
Author:Jeanette Winterson
Create image

“Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."”

DifferentWholeIndividualTermInterestProgressSecurityPolicySourceInnovationDiscussionAccountabilitySoftwareVocabularyDiscussingPublic PolicyCalculusDevelopersPublic InterestOpen Source
Author:Evgeny Morozov
Create image

“We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.”

NeedsHeartLittlesSelfTodayLawLeftLossExerciseCapableCriticismCaughtBrilliantReasoningConformityPrisonerModestyNeverthelessVocabularyDecadenceSchizophrenicSelf CriticismDoctoring
Author:Albert Camus
Create image

“There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a vocabulary thing or a right-to-left thing or script supervisor stuff. It's a way of thinking about the film and the shots and the way they fit together, what you need and what you don't need, and what you can get away with if you have to.”

IfsThinkingWayNeedsTogetherFilmLeftStuffFitShotsScriptsGet AwayEditorsVocabularyWay Of ThinkingSupervisors
Author:Joe Dante
Create image