Polysemy Quotes

#1. On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.

Jed Rubenfeld

#2. Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.

Yasmin Mogahed

#3. It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Ketch Secor

#4. What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, "respond" rather than simply "react." In

Dan Harris

#5. Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

Karl Marx

#6. We are beings who seek the infinity of beauty over the finitude of time.

J.M. Campos

#7. The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

Akio Morita

#8. Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.

Muriel Barbery

#9. That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.

Richard M. Daley

#10. A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean De La Bruyere

#11. I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

Bob Mould

#12. They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

James Lipton

#13. They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#14. Polysemy, and it is very common. Sound is another polysemic word.

Bill Bryson

#15. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.

J.D. Salinger

#16. One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.

Michael Moorcock