Thesaurus Quotes

• Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thought Provoking, Hunts

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• I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.

  Demetri Martin

  Bravery, Daring, Valor

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

  Rumer Godden

  Memories, Gold, Paragraph

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• What's another word for Thesaurus?

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Silly

  "Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, edited by Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels & Irené Wotherspoon" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2009.

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• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

  Peter McWilliams

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

  Jon Stewart

  Long Ago, People, Political

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• I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that.

  Rude Jude

  Dollars, Way, Certain

  "'Can you imagine the pain? I understand the pain'". Interview with Jane Marie, logger.believermag.com. August 14, 2015.

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• Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

  Toni Morrison

  Wall, Taken, Writing

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• Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

  Francis Chan

  Order, Christian Inspirational, Perfect

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.20, David C Cook

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• There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology.

  Myka 9

  Skills, Issues, Tools

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• I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, "Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding." It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Thinking, Yellow

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Rapper, Class, Names

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—” She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte’s mouth so firmly set into a hard line. “Would you like a thesaurus?” Will inquired. “You seem to be running out of words.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Fighting, Stubborn

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.526, Simon and Schuster

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• What I need is an Urban Thesaurus. I know what money is what I need is 600 different ways to say it.

  Gary Gulman

  Different, Needs, Way

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• My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus.

  Craig Ferguson

  Son, Names, Asking

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• A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Writing, Giving

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• Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

  Amy Tan

  Depression, Use, Mental Illness

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• As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

  Hans Rosling

  Microsoft Word, Use, Goldfish

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• My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.

  Ken Cuccinelli

  Country, Thinking, Views

  "Steve Shannon for attorney general", pilotonline.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  Wale

  Talking, Common Sense, Fake

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• Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.

  Darynda Jones

  Halloween, Government, Recognition

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.239, St. Martin's Press

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