Usage Quotes

115 quotes by 102 authors

I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow… — Charlie Worsham
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope… — Edward M. Lerner
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. — Peter Diamandis
The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers. — Shawn Amos
When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential… — Steven Sinofsky
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high… — John Olver
Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as… — Vinod Khosla
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being… — Kathy Acker
The use of advise in the sense of inform, notify was found acceptable by a majority of the Usage Panel in an earlier survey, but… — Marcjames
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… — Dorian Cox
When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is… — David Kirk
Pattern modeling is very useful and a major step, but users don't always conform to those patterns. For example, when there is a specific event… — Mike Flanagan
Words are the most powerful weapons, use them carefully, they can make you and break you, depending upon your usage. — Senora Roy
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak… — Philip Dormer Stanhope
English language would become poorer if words like 'apology', 'regret' and 'sorry' are withdrawn from usage. — Chandlrababu VS

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