Becomes Quote by William Safire Download Open image “At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.” — William Safire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becomes Certain Language Mean Meaning People Use
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. — William Safire Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia… — William Safire Copy Share Image
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and… — William Safire Copy Share Image
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's… — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
If you have more downforce, everything becomes much easier. Drivers drive better, engineers they have more room for setup, the tyres are working better… — Robert Kubica Copy Share Image
I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
For someone who works in theatre, the rehearsal is where you discover everything. It is where magic happens, where the script enters you and… — Ali Fazal Copy Share Image
We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
When you try to become a good cook, in the beginning, most likely the dish is not going to be good. But you keep… — Jannik Sinner Copy Share Image
It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody. — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
