This collection holds 567 vocabulary quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Sam Trammell, Nas and Ruud Van Nistelrooy.

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I'm a vocabulary nerd.

Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

Losing is not in my vocabulary.

People's vocabulary has expanded.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

All I know is what I have words for.

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

I pretend to be calm, it's not a word in my vocabulary.

The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

Fear isn't in my vocabulary in terms of how I approach a fight.

The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary.

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word.

I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.

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