The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No business is good when, on the last day of the month, you're like, 'What was the usage for the month?' — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.” — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I… — Questlove Copy Share Image
I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and… — Milton Friedman 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
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it.… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Because [Russel Westbrook] is so rare and impacts the game in so many different ways, you see the usage and the amount… — Russell Westbrook Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
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