Vocabulary Quotes

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Right!""Right!""You can get there!""I can get there!""You're a natural at counting to two!""I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!""If you can count to two, you can count to anything!""If I can count to two, I can count to anything!""And then the world is your mollusc!""My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

He shook his head,'Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.''Is that still your favourite word?' asked Isola interestedly, 'I like "verisimilitude". Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is "cellar door",

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!

When Internet parlance finds its way into our accepted vocabulary, it becomes a cliché.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

This document outlines our plan to perpetrate insurance fraud, insider trading, and character assassination....hopefully tripling our paycheck on this job.Okay, see? Those words I understand just fine. Use them more often.-Lieutenant Massey Reynstein & Captain Tagon

We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.

Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.