Portmanteau Word Quotes

#1. The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

Norman Tebbit

#2. How awful," he said, "the way time passes!

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Robert McKee

#4. August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

Henry Rollins

#5. This day had officially punched every hole in her crazy ticket.

Kimberly Kincaid

#6. They both make growling sounds and gnash their teeth as they wrestle. I don't know what to do, so I just stand there like an idiot, holding a basket of cock cookies watching two dudes fight it out.

Alexa Riley

#7. Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

Lewis Carroll

#8. And I'm not a worthless person. Maybe I've got a lot of problems and pretty much everything is going wrong for me right now, but I'm not worthless.

J.A. Huss

#9. In the Middle East, Iraq , Sudan , the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world , religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God .

John C. Danforth

#10. Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it out.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Harry S. Truman

#12. Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.

Jon Spaihts

#13. Church people think about how to get people into the church; kingdom people think about how to get the church into the world. Church people worry that the world might change the church; kingdom people work to see the church change the world.

Kim Hammond

#14. They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.

George Herbert

#15. Unbounded awareness is the reservoir of possibilities.

Deepak Chopra

#16. If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

Arthur Conan Doyle