He shook his head,’Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.”Is that still your favourite word?’ asked Isola interestedly, ‘I like “verisimilitude”. Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is “cellar door”,

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to...

From the corner of my eye I saw her. Of course this chance encounter with Rebecca wasn’t serendipitous. (I’m not throwing that word out there to illustrate my broad vocabulary, but rather to show that...

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

How many words are you having trouble with, sir?Just the ones that I’ve highlighted.I count at least a dozen, and I haven’t gotten out of the first paragraph.That’s as far as I got, too. I’m...

A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.

The word ‘suffering’ is not in my vocabulary.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.