Lexicon Quotes
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Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.
Tim McIlrath Rise Against -
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
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With 'The Karate Kid' especially, there's been so many references and visual images from that film, you know? Who knew that 'Wax on, wax off' would become part of the American lexicon?
Ralph Macchio -
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
Jonathan Swift -
The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.
Susan Straight