Quotes About Connotation

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.

The English word sin is derived from the German term Sünde, which carries the connotation of sundering or dividing.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

It may interest you that, a day or so ago, attempting to discuss your ideas with regard to sex and religion , my eccentric friend, fixing his eyes rather fiercely upon me, growled abruptly: Semen is God. Unwilling to excite him further, I replied: Sir, though I understand perfectly what you mean by Semen, I am unacquainted with the connotation which you attach to the term God.

Whereas a term that one person may use unwittingly can in some cases be levelled against them (Cumberbatch), in other cases extreme terms which people are using knowingly do not in fact count as being the words they have used. This is the explanation that Klein, El-Wardany and others have given. Whereas some people unwittingly use the wrong term and can be castigated for it, other people use terms that are so wrong and so extreme and yet no especial castigation is due.

All names mean something.

unless you allowed them to mean something.

He misliked the very word "interesting," connoting it with wasted energy and even with morbidity. Hard facts were enough for him.

Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing.

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

Being called a dog is a Respect for a person, but being called a bitch is an Insult for everyone.

The world doesn't need CHANGE, all it requires only right CORRECTION in everyone's action, whenever required, as the interpretation to the meaning of CHANGE has a different connotation based on an individual's level of the perception, the width of the imagination and the depth of the introspection.

We know fewer words, and the ones we know are less beautiful. The words we've lost tend to be connotative, and the ones we've gained tend to be denotative. I've never seen modem used in a poem.

Funny how one little word can mean 'full of or disposed to joy and mirth', 'homosexual' and 'rubbish'. It just shows that context is everything.

that everything, whatever happens, has three meanings.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

If one word can mean so many things at the same time then I don't see why I can't.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning we give it.

The difference is that when you develop patterns of sin in the majority race, they have no racial connotation. Since majority people don't think of themselves in terms of race, none of our dysfunctions is viewed as a racial dysfunction. When you are the majority ethnicity, nothing you do is ethnic. It's just the way it's done. When you are a minority, everything you do has colour.