The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is… — David Carson Copy Share Image
The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto… — Guillermo Gomez-Pena Copy Share Image
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen King, which is my favorite… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't like the label 'plus-size' -- I call it 'fiercely real.' On 'Top Model,' we call it fiercely real. I don't… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But a problem arises because whenever I use words, those words have connotations in your mind. When I say 'Celebrate', you think… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found… — Taitetsu Unno Copy Share Image
Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
