Synonym Quotes

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Verbose is not a synonym for literary. — Constance Hale
Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that… — Andreas Gursky
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. — Russell Baker
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek… — Dean Koontz
Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning. — Charles Handy
The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names.… — Edmund Burke
A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms. — Roy Peter Clark
Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found… — Mikhail Chigorin
With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to… — Glenn Reynolds
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym… — Ben Hecht
Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law. — Maxine Hong Kingston
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which… — Robert M. Lindner
It's not that you get a clichÃ© and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it… — Martin Amis
Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.". — Theodore Levitt
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. — Theodore Sturgeon
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite… — Jay Griffiths
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy. — Angela Davis
Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse… — John Muir
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive… — Will Self

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