Synonym Quotes
62 quotes by 59 authors
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The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,†or “Those guys are fags.†Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you…
— Pete Wentz
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.
— Norton Juster
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There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
— Jodi Picoult
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Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.
— Dan Brown
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
— R C Sproul
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Is there another word for synonym?
— George Carlin
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
— Tim Ferriss
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I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to…
— Mike Shinoda
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Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.
— Osamu Dazai
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We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym…
— Lionel Shriver
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Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
— Anne Rice
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I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.
— Mindy Kaling
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Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.
— Eloisa James
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars,…
— John Muir
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What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I…
— Linda Ellerbee
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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.
— George Balanchine
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The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word…
— William Jennings Bryan
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