Quotes About Synonyms

#1. Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. Fun and killing ain't synonyms to regular folks, Zeus."

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Shay Rucker

#3. A gay lobbyist is a resident of San Francisco who equates Greek pederasty with consented male-on-male only pedophilia, invokes pederasty to justify his bizarre behavior, and then denies that pedophilia and homosexuality are synonyms.

Bill Gaede

#4. You're impossible," I growl, and rip open the book. Theron laughs and scoots a little closer to me. "Impossible, endearing. Synonyms, really.

Sara Raasch

#5. Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

Pema Chodron

#6. Fairyland ... Paradise ... In this place and at this time, Marguerite could know that the one was a parable of the other and both were synonyms for something that had no name.

Elizabeth Goudge

#7. I feel so fortunate to be one of the lucky ones who is so grateful and appreciative to know such great synonyms for thankful.

Demetri Martin

#8. Jesper, you're tall, brown, and conspicuous-"

"All synonyms for delightful.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams

#10. The dictionary is based on the hypothesis
obviously an unproven one
that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. I'm running out of things to say.
I've stopped stealing pages out of poetry books, but last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you and could only find rain
and more rain
and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, an orchestra.

Shinji Moon

#12. I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.

Manoj Arora

#14. There are no such things as synonyms!" he practically shouted. "Deluge is not the same as flood.

Tom Robbins

#15. You have tens, hundreds of thousands of people in government, and just as many among contractors, who feel totally comfortable writing at the top of the document "internal use only," "official use only," and a million other synonyms, all of which amount to "none of your business" to the public.

Ted Gup

#16. Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success.

Kshitij Shringi

#17. Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.

Ray Kurzweil

#19. Sadness and grief aren't the same thing. It's why they have different words. Maybe it's a subtle distinction, but we don't keep a word in a language if it doesn't still have a purpose of its own. Synonyms are never exact things.

Dot Hutchison

#20. You can be critical and not judgmental. The two are synonyms, but no the same. The critical man analyzes people, things, and issues, very carefully. The judgmental man presents the results of his careful analysis in a manner that condemns.

Kingsley C. Okei

#21. New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex!

Dana Gould

#22. Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

Anne Rice

#23. Vengence, betrayal, and love they all are synonyms for the same word: fake.

TBBishiXO

#24. At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

Benjamin Graham

#25. I hate the term 'black' because it doesn't bring to life who we are as a people. The term 'black' has more negative synonyms than the term white.

Isaiah Washington

#26. In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.

George Balanchine

#27. Last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you but could only find rain and more rain and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, like an orchestra.

Shinji Moon

#28. Like all numinous contents, they have a tendency to self-amplification, that is to say they form the nuclei for an aggregation of synonyms. These

C. G. Jung

#29. Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.

Bee Wilson

#30. People do complain about the way I act on stage ... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

Bo Burnham

#31. We are synonyms but not the same.

Tahereh Mafi

#32. Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Frank Herbert

#33. English, as Charlton Laird has noted, is the only language that has, or needs, books of synonyms like Roget's Thesaurus. "Most speakers of other languages are not aware that such books exist" [The Miracle of Language, page 54].

Bill Bryson

#34. Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.

Nancy Kress

#35. Once we have our atium, we'll be happy."
"Not to mention rich," Ham added.
"The two words are synonyms, Hammond," Breeze said.

Brandon Sanderson

#36. Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

Theodore Sturgeon

#37. Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical. To the first-century disciples, normal and radical were synonyms. We've turned them into antonyms.

Mark Batterson

#38. A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

Roy Peter Clark

#39. Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. Many words convey subtle shades of meaning,

Steven Pinker

#40. I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark

Bennett Madison

#41. A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Baltasar Gracian

#42. Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.

P.G. Wodehouse

#43. I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Woody Allen