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Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor.
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live.
When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader knows Urdu well.
To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
I do rap and speak in Malayalam but only to save my life as my vocabulary in the language is not as good as it is in Hindi.
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it.
Donald Trump was sharp; he was very perceptive. He was engaging. He had this expansive vocabulary, and he very seldom took breaks.
A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all.
Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.
I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice pair of legs to go in the shoes is always good, too.
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.
I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.
Boxers don't tend to come from Cambridge or Oxford. Sometimes the things we say don't come out well. We are not known for our vocabulary.
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.
English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.
'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just.