Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of… — David Kirk Copy Share Image
In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“One of the undoubted virtues of English is that it is a fluid and democratic language in which meanings shift and change… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
