Top 18 Abstract Nouns Quotes

#1. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean "More people died" don't say "Mortality rose.

C.S. Lewis

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#2. But art and religion will always shadow one another through the abstract nouns they both invoke: truth, seriousness, imagination, sympathy, morality, transcendence.

Julian Barnes

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#3. What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

Terry Jones

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#4. My mother did not think mustaches were feminine. I don't know why.

Cynthia Kadohata

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#5. Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

Baltasar Gracian

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#6. It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

Padma Lakshmi

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#7. In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Najib Razak

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#8. Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

Will Rogers

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#9. The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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#10. I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

Preity Zinta

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#11. The sights of infinity can be too strong. They can scorch the soul. It's best to take infinity on a little at a time.

Frederick Lenz

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#12. "Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

Gore Vidal

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#13. Most life is spent doing things we don't want to do.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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#14. It's part of a series, they were all on display in the shop. This girl, she gets trains, has tattoos, kicks things, all sorts.' 'I don't think it's a series, Mum. They just call all books the same thing now.' 'Like

Jay Stringer

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#15. I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

Jeremy Piven

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#16. I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.

Carolyn See

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#17. If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.

Helen Fisher

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#18. I'm really happy in my own skin.

Kate Winslet

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