Usage Quotes

115 quotes by 102 authors

All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them… — Harriet Martineau
[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class… — Harry Shearer
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody… — Alfred Brendel
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it… — Edward Sapir
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you… — Fran Lebowitz
Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply:Â happen:Â to people, rather than be being caused… — Thomas Sowell
I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning… — Jacques Rivette
I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket. — Gabriela Sabatini
Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop.… — Bram Cohen
The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!)… — Augusto Boal
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs… — Carol J. Adams
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of… — Matt Mullenweg
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out… — Matt Mullenweg
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than… — A. E. van Vogt
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist.… — Medard Boss
One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of… — James Dobson
Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to… — Gerald McRaney
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity. — Robert E. Lee

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