Lexicon famous quotes

I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.
-- Alice Eve

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Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.
-- Christopher Reeve

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Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.
-- Deborah Feldman

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In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Fate #Lexicon #Youth

I've been 6'4'' since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.
-- Jason Segel

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Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.
-- Laila Lalami

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Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.
-- Madonna Ciccone

#People #Lexicon #Magazines

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
-- Penelope Lively

#Latin #Museums #Lexicon

Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
-- Randall Jarrell

#Different #Lexicon #Looks

Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.
-- Richard Rosen

#Understanding #Lexicon #Frozen

Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.
-- Tim McIlrath

#Lexicon #Retiring

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
-- William Safire

#Drama #Lexicon #Language