Quotes About Malapropism

#1. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship, was that one had to explain nothing

Katherine Mansfield

#2. Teaching, without learning, is just talking

K. Patricia Cross

#3. For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion ... even God."
"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."
"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.

Pam Houston

#4. Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate strangers continuously ...

Frederik Peeters

#5. Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

Grace Slick

#6. I don't like this, he said. I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg?I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want.

Rachel Caine

#7. Now, a month later, I sit, foggy, a similar state of mind, in a different seafood restaurant with a locals-know-every-secret bar, two happy hour martinis downed, fidgeting with my napkin below the lip of the table, and I barely hear Wendy ask me another question. She brought a bag of them tonight.

Justin Bog

#8. Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

Plutarch

#9. It's an erectoral vote.... it doesn't mean dick.

Robin Reardon

#10. I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

Vidya Balan

#11. Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

William S. Wilson

#12. Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If we are not careful, it can corrupt our culture, damage our eyes and drain away our time.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#13. Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

DeForest Soaries

#14. And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#15. If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.

Michael Bassey Johnson