Language Quote by Burt Bacharach Download Open image “A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.” — Burt Bacharach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Synonym Use
If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a… — Michael Nesmith 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
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important. — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
“I have notes in my bathroom, yellow notes, and I stick 'em on the mirror, things that happened that were uplifting boosters for me.… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity. — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football. — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
