Quotes About Coining

#1. The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Virginia Woolf

#2. HAVING IT ALL." Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That's boring.

Bubba Watson

#4. The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.

Michelene Wandor

#5. Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. Persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science ...
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Thomas Carlyle

#7. The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.

Mary Roach

#8. We were playing this music and we were trying to be the heaviest thing on the face of the planet. We wanted just to piss people off and send everybody home. and that can't be, like, flower metal." - Possessed's Jeff Beccera on coining the term 'death metal

Albert Mudrian

#9. Hey, is there a female version of wingman? Wingwoman sounds awkward. I'm coining a new phrase: Titcaptain. Tell your friends.

Cory O'Brien

#10. (Coining the phrase 'test of significance'): Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first.

Ronald Fisher

#11. Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]

Fred Hoyle

#12. Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.

Joe Manganiello

#13. As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

Kirk Cameron

#14. If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

Alan King

#15. When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

Louis Gossett Jr.

#16. But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Dennis Eckersley

#17. It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.

Wajdi Mouawad

#18. Fathers - dressed

Harlow Giles Unger

#19. And that's supposed to make me feel better? What if he took her home? If he fucked her, I'll kill him, Stone. So help me God I will annihilate everything he's ever touched. She's mine now. She's fucking mine,

Rachel Robinson

#20. I came out of an electronic music scene that based all its music on software. It was a real boys thing, a real testosterone thing - software and the relationship between music and the software - to the point where it was like a closely guarded secret.

Herbert