A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one. J.R.R. Tolkien

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The vocabulary of one's self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. Adam Phillips

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The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop. T. Geronimo Johnson

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace David Ogilvy

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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. Evan Esar

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. Fred Frith

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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. J. K. Rowling

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I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy. Jim Rohn

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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. Larry Flynt

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Of course, there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. Margaret Mahy

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I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode. Mary Robinson

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So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language Michael Polanyi

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. Robert Louis Stevenson

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You can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better. Rudolf Flesch and Abraham Lass

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Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence. Slash

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In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all. Susan Sontag

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There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent. T. S. Eliot

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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others. Vanna Bonta

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I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world. Wilma Rudolph

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A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. Winston Churchill

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A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. Winston Churchill

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Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily. Zig Ziglar

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