What Does It Mean To Put A Word In Quotes

#1. I love the passions. They create such sensation! Anger, grief, fear, love, hate, excitement. The fierce emotions make one feel. Such are a gift, so one knows one is alive. To live without passion is to have no life at all.

Nikki Sex

#2. I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Jeff Daniels

#3. Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

Lorrie Moore

#4. I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that word means in the sentence, then you have to read the sentence in the paragraph - you're sort of building up like that; that's my philosophy.

Ann Goldstein

#5. I was there when God was put on trial ... At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

Elie Wiesel

#6. I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'

Peter Higgs

#7. I mean," I said, "it's not like the lake is a living thing." This was perhaps the worst thing I could have said. He looked suddenly alarmed. He put a hand, sticky as it was with gray sand, over my mouth. "Hush, darlin' girl! Hush! The lake hears your every word and knows your every thought.

Graham Joyce

#8. I'm pretty sure the last time you saw a vagina, you were coming out of one." I snorted. "Yeah, well, not all of us needed to experiment in college to figure it out, Irish.

S.E. Harmon

#9. The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Richard Louv

#10. A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

James Patterson

#11. We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime.

Seth Godin

#12. I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#13. Has that line ever worked for anyone?"
"I'm not feeding you lines. I mean every word."
...
"Day One of my life was the day I met you."
"Okay, that's a winner. You can put it in.

Sylvia Day

#14. Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

Claude Shannon

#15. Well done to the lady lineswoman.

Chris Kamara