In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. — John Lyman Chatfield Copy Share Image
And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So the Lincoln movie gets trashed because Connecticut voted for the amendment - not to mention how the people in Connecticut feel… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes… — Donna Fargo Copy Share Image
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis,"… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image