Best Thesaurus Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“used tight as sutures and orné with ossiform stucco and curlicues”

Pretentious Thesaurus Word Salad Unreadable

Source: Non Serviam

“A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus.”

Graffiti Restaurant Thesaurus

Book:The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

Source: The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

“I was in a strange town in a strange state with Tanner Woods, and it was all very strange, and it was no wonder I didn't get an A in English, because I seriously needed another word and a thesaurus.”

Strange Words Grades English Thesaurus

Book:Hearts Overboard

Source: Hearts Overboard

“Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.”

Bigs Sound Common Talking Common Sense Fake Fades Backwards Cant Corny Thesaurus

Author:Wale

“I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that.”

Way Feels Certain Can Do Amount Ten Dollars Thesaurus

Author:Rude Jude

“There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology.”

Helping Ability Issues Theory Skills Tools Crosses Diverse Puzzles Outspoken Terminology Freestyle Vernacular Music Theory Thesaurus Spacing

Author:Myka 9

“I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.”

Bravery Daring Valor Thesaurus

Book:This Is a Book

Source: This Is a Book

“My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus.”

Knows Names Stuff Son Asking My Son Dinosaurs Thesaurus

Author:Craig Ferguson

“What I need is an Urban Thesaurus. I know what money is what I need is 600 different ways to say it.”

Knows Way Needs Different Different Ways Urban Thesaurus

Author:Gary Gulman

“Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.”

Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

“I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.”

Wanted Names Class Saws Too Much Needed My Friends Decided Tiny Hips Temper Rapper Thesaurus

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, "Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding." It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.”

“What's another word for Thesaurus?”

Inspirational Humor Funny Silly Funny Bumper Sticker Thesaurus

Author:Steven Wright

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

Writing Exception Thought Provoking Hunts Wrong Words Thesaurus

Author:Stephen King

“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”

People Long Remember Political Democracy One Thing Long Ago Swept Away Thesaurus

Author:Jon Stewart

“Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?”

Spirit Order Perfect Comfort Worship Glory Deserve Filled Definitions Christian Inspirational Holiness Exhausted Our Words Thesaurus

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.”

Government Week Recognition Halloween Destined Charley Davidson Thesaurus

Book:The Charley Davidson Series

Source: The Charley Davidson Series

“Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—” She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte’s mouth so firmly set into a hard line. “Would you like a thesaurus?” Will inquired. “You seem to be running out of words.”

Hard Seems Running Fighting Lines Paper Mouths Rage Broke Temper Desks Stubborn Degenerates Hypocritical Charlotte Obstinate Exclamation Thesaurus

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.”

Writing Trying Has Beens Taken Wall Bed Six Sight Cards Dictionary Deck Off The Wall Playing Cards Thesaurus

Author:Toni Morrison

“A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.”

Giving Writing Happens Song Songwriting Dictionary Tease Rhyming Thesaurus

Author:Dorothy Fields

“Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.”

Ifs Use Natural Depression Illness Mental Illness Journal Therapists Thesaurus

Author:Amy Tan

“My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.”

Thinking Needs Country Happens Law Individual Natural Views Policy Healthy Behavior Appropriate Homosexuality Polite Homosexual Natural Law Thesaurus

Author:Ken Cuccinelli

“You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.”

People Needs Writing Mean Book Helping Reality Bits Plans Latter Gambling Working It Lunch Grammar Pension Free Lunch Thesaurus Pension Plans

Author:Margaret Atwood

“A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.”

Memories Mines Gold Paragraph Right Words Thesaurus

Author:Rumer Godden