Synonym Quotes

• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

  Burt Bacharach

  Funny, Writing, Sarcasm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Writing, Use, Spells

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• For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

  Juliette Binoche

  Death, Habit

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• Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

  Dan Brown

  Google, Research

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.235, Random House

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• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

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• Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

  Philip Guedalla

  Greatness, Great Success, Courteous

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

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• In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.

  Ben Hecht

  Movie, Art, Adventure

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• Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Violation, Intercourse

  1987 Intercourse,'Occupation/Collaboration'.

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• To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Atheism, World, Language

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have to digest the definition of real development: development is synonymous with culture. When we sublimate nature in a way that we achieve peace, happiness, prosperity and, ultimately, fulfilment along with satisfying our basic needs, we march towards culture.

  Sunderlal Bahuguna

  Relationship, Happiness, Peace

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• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Stars, Night

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, Keys, Awful

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.315, Anchor

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• Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Eye, Needs

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2667, Ballantine Books

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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 for agony that isn't yours.

  Lionel Shriver

  Agony, Might, Medical Profession

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.306, Counterpoint Press

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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

  Milk, Poetic, Wells

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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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 stop talking And start trying to catch up

  Mike Shinoda

  Talking, Opposites, Trying

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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

  Want, Reason, Human Condition

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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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 for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Book, Stressed

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.60, Vintage

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• Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

  Norton Juster

  Buns, Care, Dukes

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I still have a stammer. I hate it; I loathe and despise it. But it's always there, and I have lots of ways to conceal it. I can conceal it now but I'm not good on the telephone. I get my husband to make dentist appointments. And I hate live radio. Hate it. I really try to avoid it at all costs. But it's always there. Stammerers become skilled at sentence construction and synonyms: we have to be. Faced with a problem word, we need to have instant access to eight others we could use instead - ones we could say without stumbling. I think my stammer is a huge part of my being a writer.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Husband, Hate, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

  Will Self

  Phones, Texting, Neglect

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

  R. C. Sproul

  Comfort, Mystery, Contradiction

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• Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

  Gary Bauer

  Moral Behavior, Morality, Marriage And Family

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• Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

  David Bowie

  Home, Thinking, Departure

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview" by Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.

  Eula Biss

  Powerful, Mean, Intelligent

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