Quotes with usage

  • The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

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  • Fran Lebowitz Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • A. E. van Vogt It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Lord George Byron Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Elizabeth Drew The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Alexander Smith The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Alexander Haig Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Douglas Adams Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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