Honorific Quotes

#1. I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

Helen Vendler

#2. The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

Thorstein Veblen

#3. Dogger had once warned me to be wary of any man who introduced himself as 'Mr.' It was an honorific, he said, a mark of respect to be bestowed by others, but never, ever, under any circumstances, upon oneself.

Alan Bradley

#4. You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Thom Mayne

#5. The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find a home in the ordinary world, sanctuaries for those whom Baudelaire might have dignified with the honorific 'poets'.

Alain De Botton

#6. The term physical is just kinda like an honorific word, kinda like the word 'real' when we say 'the real truth'. It doesn't add anything, it just says 'this is serious truth'. So to say that something is 'physical' today just means 'you gotta take this seriously'.

Noam Chomsky

#7. As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.

Sheila Jeffreys

#8. First of all, the Captain rates the honorific 'sir.' You will render that honorific or I will plant my foot in your ass.

William C. Dietz

#9. Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

Louise Penny

#10. I survived because I had trained my heart to do the same: survive. Becoming an Ironman had kept me from becoming a dead man.

Matt Long

#11. Years, so many years we'd been friends and sisters . . . and now she was gone. Taking a handful of dirt, I held it over the grave, and let it sift through my fingers. "Be at peace, Milly. Wait for me on the other side, my friend.

Shannon Mayer

#12. I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

Simon Pegg

#13. The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Walter Dean Myers

#14. Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

Robert Gordon Sproul

#15. It is a very terrible sermon, this Sermon on the Mount. Be very careful as you read it, and especially when you talk about it. If you criticize this Sermon at any point you are really saying a great deal about yourself.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#16. Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Jane Goodall

#17. It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

Emma Goldman

#18. Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.

George Lucas

#19. The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain

#20. The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

Dennis Washington

#21. Instead of ignoring our differences, we need to accept and transcend them.

Sheryl Sandberg

#22. ...the essential task of feminism is not to go looking around for a ready-made theory and then try to make it relevant to our (little?) "issue" or "problem". This is self-depreciating in the extreme, a fact that is obvious if one realises that feminism is cosmic in its dimensions.

Mary Daly

#23. At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Herman Melville