Vocabula Quotes & Sayings

You know I think you hung the moon, right?" "Right. Just like I know you held the ladder and looked up my skirt. — Gena Showalter

In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides adduces a change in language as a major factor in Athens's descent from dysfunctional democracy through demagoguery into tyranny and anarchy: people began to define things in any way they pleased, he says, and the "normally accepted meaning of words" broke down. In his account of the Catiline crisis in republican Rome, Sallust has Cato the Younger identify the misuse of language - specifically the scission of word and meaning - as the underlying cause of the threat to the state. Society, Cato says, has lost the "vera vocabula rerum," literally, the "true names of things."18 In seventeenth-century England, Thomas Hobbes lived through a civil war he believed had been caused in significant measure by a war of words about religion - spread through the pervasive pamphleteering that printing had made possible - that had fatally weakened the linguistic common ground on which an ordered state depends. — Mark John Thompson

We're living in post-nuance online times. — Jon Ronson

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious. — Mick Jagger

I am proud to say that I am not in it for the money. If I made a million dollars, I would donate most of it to various charities and libraries. — Selena I. R. Drake

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing — Martin Luther

Because wine means the responsible part of the day is over. — Julie James

Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created. — Sydney Banks