Quotes & Sayings About Increasing Vocabulary

The child, so much more insecure than an adult, needs assurance that his need to engage in fantasy, or his inability to stop doing so, is not a deficiency. — Bruno Bettelheim

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day. — David McCandless

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ. — Kenneth Rexroth

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations. — Thomas George Bonney

Satiated with the great purposelessness of it, we gently belched nerve gases into the next generation — Dambudzo Marechera

Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl ... I have ever met since ... I met you. — Oscar Wilde

I guess music is your drug of choice. — Tara Kelly

And not to serve for a table-talk. — Michel De Montaigne

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because
she couldn't remember the lines. — Joan Rivers