Home / Topics / Paid Quotes

Paid Quotes

Browse 2633 quotes about Paid.

Paid Quotes

“I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.”

Made Language Attention Known Paid Behave Rhetoric Grammar

Author:Red Smith

“When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.”

World Language Attention Poverty Violence Racism Paid Careful Divorce Sexism Pollution Giver Precision Utopian Futuristic Bad Word Fluency

Author:Lois Lowry

“For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.”

Mean Language Term Attention Fiction Paid Experimentation Sophistication

Author:Karen Russell

“Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.”

Language Groups Dignity Paid Jew African American League Homosexual Disrespect Constituents Steep Defamation Naacp

Author:John C. McGinley

“I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.”

Thinking Way Two Fighting Language Term Deals Paid Clubs Labels Inventing Labeling

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.”

May Sometimes Use Speak Language Successful Paid Hopeless Compliment Flattery Speak The Truth Hopeless Love Successful Love

Book:The Moonstone (Mystery Thriller Classic): Detective story from the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe and more

Source: The Moonstone (Mystery Thriller Classic): Detective story from the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe and more

“Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject.”

Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

“The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life. Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase.”

Mind Wells May States Science Language Sound Known Opinion Materials Paid Currents Doctrine Absurd Phrases Application Well Known Alterations

Book:Maxwell on Molecules and Gases

Source: Maxwell on Molecules and Gases