Usage Quotes

115 quotes by 102 authors

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time. — Steven Pinker
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current… — Alexander Smith
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love… — Harry Stack Sullivan
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. — Elwyn Brooks White
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines… — Ursula K. Le Guin
...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself… — Aravind Adiga
There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great… — Elie Wiesel
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs… — Diana Gabaldon
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had… — Jennifer Egan
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for… — Eoin Colfer
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's… — Meg Whitman
What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and… — Michel de Montaigne
Language usage always has a political context. — Jackson Katz
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal. — Hal Rogers
The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break… — Bill Gates
As users replace usage of the web with a mobile, app-centric ecosystem, the phone becomes the center of gravity. In this mobile world, Facebook is… — Keith Teare
Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as the traditional PC… — Michael Dell

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