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Wording Quotes (page 198)

My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?’ Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape’s ferocious, anguished face. ‘If you insist … J. K. Rowling
Everything is cellular. Reality is cellular. I really love that word, cellular. Cellular phone, cellular foam, sleeper cell, cellulite, cellular automata . . . A cell can be anything! . . . It's cellular. It's quantum dots. It's quantum and cellular and bosonic. It's bosonic cellular quantum dottiness. With ribbons on." -- Jimmy Ganzer, 'Good Night, Moon Rudy Rucker
Upon my word,' said Dantes, 'you make me tremble. If I listen much longer to you, I shall believe the world is filled with tigers and crocodiles.''Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four. Alexander Dumas
If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word "identity" has reached an end. Don DeLillo
Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused. Why, the words are spelled differently, and mean quite different things. Everyone can see that. Oscar Wilde
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like..."
Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain Zora Neale Hurston
She's the Sandwhich Lady."Excuse me?"She delivers sandwiches to the homeless."Really. I can't imagine her in such a role."What do you mean?" "Well, she always seems so impulsive, so emotional. What's the word I'm searching for? So individualistic. Not tribal at all... Sherman Alexie
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word. Toni Morrison
Benjamin Spock quote: "It's not the words but the music that counts."
It's not the words but the music that counts. Benjamin Spock
the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms... Barack Obama
I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly. Harper Lee
Karl Marx quote: "Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said..."
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. Karl Marx
Gerard Way quote: "I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never..."
I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead? Gerard Way
There is no English equivalent for the French word flneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the... Cornelia Otis Skinner
Haruki Murakami quote: "What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out..."
What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? Haruki Murakami

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