1903 Word Quotes for You to Enjoy

The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated. Robin Givhan

Word Negative Value Beauty Whatever Own Superficial Emotional Underestimated Sake Cannot Connotations Applied Suggesting Pull

I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband. Robin Marantz Henig

Work Alone Word Husband Freelance Single Big Living Writer Days Single Word Anyone Apartment Room Many Utter Living Room Desk

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism. Rodney Stark

Word Thinking Too Religious Embraces Taken Most Dogmatism Western Intellectuals Irrationality Form Mean Theology Among

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality. Roelof Botha

Success Quality Money Key Word Value Mouth Key To Success Marketers Way Scale Recommendations Unprecedented Prevents Through Put Powerful Most Most Powerful Advertising Underlying Without Enables Effect Reviews Commerce Word-Of-Mouth Social Product Transparency Level Brings

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now. Roger McGough

Word Wish Whimsical Used Now

A word about blue jeans, which, when I was growing up, were called dungarees, one of the more unfortunate marketing ideas of our time: Starting as a work garment for miners, the ubiquitous blue jeans became a staple of the counterculture starting when Brando wore them in 'On the Waterfront' and remained so through the anti-war protests of the '70s. Roger Stone

Work Time Word Waterfront Our Marketing Miners Our Time About More Remained Through Ideas Became Protests Were Anti-War Up Brando Blue Blue Jeans Unfortunate Which Wore Them Jeans Staple Growing Growing Up Garment Starting

I'm proud that I've even had a career, but 'proud' isn't the first word I'd use. I feel lucky that I moved to Manchester when I was 12 because I don't think I could have done this in Ireland. And I feel lucky that the government took care of me from the age of 16 to when I signed my first record deal at 19. Roisin Murphy

Government Me Age Word Care First Think Took Signed Record Record Deal Could Had Feel Because Deal Proud Ireland Done Manchester Moved Use Lucky Even Career

'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores. Romesh Gunesekera

I'lI say this: I recall entering Congress in 1971 and being called a 'feminist' by members of my own party as if it was a dirty word. They didn't realize that I wore that label as a badge of honor. Ron Dellums

Word Honor Party Own Congress Say Entering Members My Own Dirty Badge Feminist Label Being Wore Realize Recall

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word. Ron Finley

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means. Ron Silver

Relationship Word Like Know Means Use Even

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them. Ron Suskind

Many politicians, celebrities, businessmen and women, and community leaders now are open about their struggles with mental illnesses, something almost unheard of when I began. Together, we are spreading the word that mental health affects all of us and deserves our support and attention. Rosalynn Carter

Health Together Women Mental Health Word Politicians Community Our About Mental Something Struggles Open Leaders Support Almost Attention Spreading Affects Began Celebrities Unheard Us Businessmen Many Illnesses Now Deserves

I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it. Rose Leslie

I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry. Rose McGowan

Myself Hate Word Considered Never Celebrity

Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can. Roxane Gay

I'm a little old-school in that I think there's some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession. If we start slanging the word 'chef' on anybody and everybody who cooks, it takes away a lot. Roy Choi

Word Value Think Everybody Some Classics Takes Steps Chef Lot Anybody Achieving Little Certain Who Cooks Profession Away Start

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion. Rudy Giuliani

The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Rumer Godden

Word Circle Thorns Motto Set

'We' is a difficult word for me. I don't know if I feel 'we' about anything. Rupert Friend

Me Word Difficult About Feel Know Anything

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same. Rupert Sheldrake

Time You Word Random Every Every Time Machines Be Different Stay About Point Computer Call Up Same Different Want Processing Your Whole Now Designed Program

I'm a brown girl from a Punjabi pind raised in Toronto. I don't expect literary critics and purists to understand the nuances of my experiences, and the experiences of the people around me... And my tradition holds that there is a magic in the written word. So how I write, what I write of, and why I write all comes naturally. Rupi Kaur

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