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.
Tommy Lasorda
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'Growth' and 'progress' are among the key words in our national vocabulary. But modern man now carries Strontium 90 in his bones ... DDT in his fat, asbestos in his lungs. A little more of this 'progress' and 'growth,' and this man will be dead.
Morris K. Udall
When we play it, my husband and I get less facial features on the 'Hangman' than do my daughter. So she gets lots more chances to guess than we do. Those games not only keep them engaged, they create a sense of conversation, and also really work on spatial awareness and vocabulary.
Mara Kaplan
'This Is New' was a beginning for me, a gentle announcement that this was where I was moving. For me as a musician, I've got to continue challenging myself. I'm sure at some point I'll come back to straight-ahead jazz, but I'm feeling the need to go outside of that realm right now to enlarge my musical vocabulary.
Dee Dee Bridgewater
We tried to play some of the materials that were here off this modern vocabulary we were dealing with.
Paula Beall
The worst thing to me is the limited vocabulary of childhood sexuality. Parents, more than anyone, know their kids are sexual.
Miranda July
The alumni house is intended to have a trellis crown that will feel like there's a garden on the roof. The vocabulary of the university architecture is becoming contemporary and the alumni house had to fit into that. You're trying to build something somewhat timeless. A lot of buildings on campus are stuck in [the] 60's and don't have legs to move forward.
Barry Berkus
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.
Jules Feiffer
Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies.
James Buckley
They don't have those sounds in their vocabulary, so they have been practicing a bunch of words beginning with WH and TH.
Patricia Stevens
We teach the vocabulary that teachers are teaching in the classroom to ELL students a few weeks ahead of time. Its known as 'priori-teaching,' which is a huge part of our teaching.
Becky Sukanen
Never 's not is our vocabulary.
Lori Frantz
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
Jose Saramago
Some of it is built in with the snow culture here. Their vocabulary is reflective of that reality. When they are out on the hills, there's an intimacy they have with that environment.
Scott Lukas
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Christopher Reeve
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.
James Agee
What ETS is hoping to do is test vocabulary in a different way under the umbrella of 'testing critical thinking' without the use of antonyms and analogies.
Matt Fidler
It's just devastating. I don't have another word in my vocabulary for it.
Philip Shanks
We have Dick to thank for adding the word 'regionalism' to our vocabulary. During his 12-year tenure with the Chamber, he has been a powerful voice for regional cooperation and collaboration with outstanding results. His accomplishments are numerous, but this will almost certainly be his lasting legacy to our region.
Dennis Archer
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
Artur Davis
Our vocabulary will be much more extensive now.
Jessica Dyer
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
Robert H. Schuller
I think the instruction is Rome's answer to all the different pressures brought to bear on it, ... It's presented in a somewhat ambiguous fashion with in-house vocabulary that allows for a range of interpretation to be taken from it. A lot will depend on where the bishop falls on the issue beforehand.
James Bretzke
At the celebration at the Shiite shrine, a cleric gave a scathing speech in the mosque's courtyard. He lashed out at the first Muslim caliphs, the founding fathers of Islam in Sunni eyes, and usurpers of power in Shiite eyes. Though he couched his attacks in the context and vocabulary of early Islamic history, it was clear that he had much more contemporary targets in his metaphorical crosshairs.
Correspondent Charles Levinson
Student assessment results suggest that collectively, Reading First schools have done an outstanding job developing students word recognition and fluency abilities. Good progress has been made in vocabulary and comprehension as well, but it is in these two areas that the most work remains to be done.
Barbara Taylor
You can really explore your musical vocabulary because someone's not always listening. And sometimes someone is listening, so you can hone your craft as a performer. You can really find your voice.
Taylor Davis
It's like being the only French-speaking child in an all-English class and wanting to speak to the other pupils. We need the grammar-book and the vocabulary.
Joachim Jakobs
I wanted to talk about that and show that without having to just have a vocabulary of blame or shame -- to say that it can be both really scary and OK, ... It can also be sad and exciting and even kind of fulfilling. It's really not a good conversation to leave to ped-ophiles. It's much better to actually talk about it without pathology.
Miranda July
It's not something I feel, It's not a word in my vocabulary and I don't know why it happened it just happened.
Dave Lenihan
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
Babies are talking full sentences with a larger vocabulary than babies that don't sign. It really stimulates something in the brain to them learning faster.
Susan Peed
Vehicle shoppers come to automotive sites with a wide range of shopping patterns, Internet skills, Internet connections, computer configurations, automotive understanding and automotive vocabulary. Creating one site that works well for so many new-vehicle shoppers is an extraordinary challenge, but Lexus has demonstrated that it can be done.
Dennis Galbraith
The visual vocabulary and aesthetics of the cartoon have influenced graphic artists and advertising style since the 1940s. An example of this in advertising would be Pop Art, and more recently [seen] in the feature film 'Sin City'.
Will Hipps
Many times in our society, children are the forgotten grievers because they don't grieve the way we do. They don't openly talk about how they are feeling because they don't have the vocabulary. How on earth would kids know how to describe these feelings?
David Kessler
OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as 'unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous.' And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. 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.
Ambrose Bierce
When you're making a comedy about really serious issues, you're kind of in the position of being an idiot savant. You're using the vocabulary of broad comedy to talk about what's most important. And I don't have a Michael Moore-like urge to offend people or get people angry at me. If anything, that idea stresses me out.
Paul Weitz
The river gives and the river basically takes away. There really isn't a vocabulary that I have access to that describes this. And as always, it's the least able to recover from this disaster who will suffer most intensely.
Richard Ford
He started with modest-sized pieces and built on the vocabulary he developed then. He's now broadened it much more to, dare I say, something operatic.
Gregory Amenoff
I've already said it many times: I'm a manager and have a factory manager's vocabulary.
Leonid Kuchma
People with a high vocabulary will often detect that they are having problems, ... but if you give them a standardised test they perform above average.
Andy Ellis
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Evelyn Waugh
For example, one group may need all of the time to simply clarify challenging vocabulary words while another group may not need to do that.
Erik Mickelson
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