1903 Word Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bizarrely, our English word 'sturdy' may go back to the Latin turdus, thrush. Anyone described as 'sturdy' in the 1200s was wilfully reckless and possibly as immovable as a sozzled bird. Susie Dent

Word Bird Back Our Reckless Latin Possibly Immovable Go May Anyone English

When eyeliner was introduced in the Twenties by Max Factor, a pioneer of Hollywood film cosmetics who began selling to the public, even the word 'makeup' was a revelation. Susie Dent

Word Introduced Cosmetics Factor Makeup Revelation Began Selling Pioneer Max Public Hollywood Who Twenties Even Film

I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use. Susie Dent

Words Word Girl Corner Guests Phrases About Week Obsessed Since Ideally Am Been Dictionary Quiz Expert Placed Little Little Girl Use Fortunate Each Each Week Resident

I love both garlic and onions, and this word pithily captures the rich tastes of both. Susie Dent

Love Word Rich Onions Both Tastes Captures Garlic

Claggy is often seen as a negative word, yet for me it describes perfectly that full-mouthed feel of a treacle tart of banoffee pie. Susie Dent

Me Word Negative Seen Perfectly Feel Pie Tart Often

My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and I'd see footage from the war zone, and I would hear the word 'Vietnam,' and I would know my dad was over there, and it was a very frightening experience for me. Suzanne Collins

War News Me Experience Mother Word Whatever Would Tried See Cartoons Footage Over Come Know Protect Occasionally Hear Very Frightening After Afternoon War Zone Us Really Vietnam Hard Dad Zone Nightly

After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt. Suzanne Somers

Thoughts Word Negative Guilt Sacrifice Reading Own Control Negative Thoughts Books Finally Way Trial Trial And Error My Own Weight Obsession Call Practicing Without Reading Books Nasty Error Up Diet After Deprivation Working Body Many Found Four-Letter Program

I hate the word 'lesbian.' Syd

Hate Word Lesbian

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. Tadao Ando

People Word Beauty Tend Between Because Overlap Intellect Intellectual Use

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. Talcott Parsons

Word Statements No Reason Fact Investigate He Taking Failing Implicit Involved Him His Denies Person Theory Reason

I stick to my word. Tammy Abraham

Word Stick

Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers, just noticed in how we utilized Spanglish. It comes out of necessity when you can't find the next word. You go to whatever language will serve you best. Tanya Saracho

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it. Tara Westover

Class Word College First Define Never Had Know Until Because Heard Hand Semester Ask Asked Holocaust Moment Professor Raised

I hate the the word 'disempower,' because it seems kind of cliche, but I do think that we take people's ability to self-teach away by creating this idea that that someone else has to do this for you, that you have to take a course, you have to do it in some formal way. Tara Westover

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed. Tea Obreht

Mother Old Word Changed Way About Writer Never Liked Looked Wrote Because Came Years Goat Short Eight Wanted Decided Short Story Story Then Page Laptop Largely Desire

If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare. Ted Cruz

Word Will Every President Obamacare Repeal Elected

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were. Ted Demme

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused. Ted McGinley

Genius Word Way Said Always Overused Hollywood

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it. Ted Turner

Good You Sometimes Word Sit Think Type Say Teleprompter Adequately Something Wing Through Wrong Wrong Word Know Read Off Up Very Grab Mean Them Then Thinker Speeches

Steve had a real sixth sense about so many things. He had an odd connection with wildlife. He was extraordinarily intuitive with people. I found it all very - I don't know if 'eerie' is the word, but remarkable, certainly. Terri Irwin

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