I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the…

“First of all, the Captain rates the honorific ‘sir.’ You will render that honorific or I will plant my foot in your ass.”

— William C. Dietz

“Wasn’t ‘Ms.’ an honorific for females back in pre-rubicon days?” asked Frome. “Some sort of honorary degree for not getting married or something?”

— Dan Simmons

As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members…

— Sheila Jeffreys

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical…

— Frank Moore Cross

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will…

— Dave Eggers

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and…

— Marshall McLuhan

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.…

— Douglas Adams

Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical…

— Tom Robbins

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of…

— Robert Barron

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined…

— Juan Goytisolo

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't…

— Michael Schultz

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage…

— Henry David Thoreau

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They…

— John Wayne

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe…

— Masanobu Fukuoka