Roget's Quotes

#1. Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

Toni Morrison

#2. 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

#3. Psalm 29:10 is another reminiscent literary reference to the ancient Egyptian heritage of the Jews' cow-worship faith

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#4. You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

David Whyte

#5. Behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

Albert Einstein

#6. Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

Tea Leoni

#7. The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.

Deborah Butterfield

#8. Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it.

Brian Herbert

#9. She gave me the slow nod women use to indicate that they understand our pain, they admire the courage with which we handle it, and they're absolutely certain that it's all our fault.

Timothy Hallinan

#10. Tell me you love me, Caleb," I whispered.
He kissed me, refusing. "I wish I could, Kitten

C.J. Roberts

#11. I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Sonia Sotomayor

#12. Her eyes widened. "My." She looked at him hesitantly and then bit her lip. "This might be more difficult than I realized. You're a large man, aren't you?" She blushed. "I mean, all over."
He managed to nod. Yes, damn it. And getting excruciatingly larger by the minute.

Monica McCarty

#13. And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

J. D. Hayworth

#14. What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?

Pete Hamill

#15. When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Jon Katz

#16. Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?

Anne Rice

#17. I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#18. Ear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

Edgar Allan Poe