Quotes About Connotation

But even in Curzon Street society, if you say, for instance, that you are a tough guy they will consider you a vulgar, irritating and objectionable person. Should you declare, however, that you are an inquisitorial and peremptory homo sapiens, they will have no idea what you mean, but they will feel in their bones that you must be something wonderful.

To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

I hate using that word, career. It always feels like the word bitch is hiding out between the letters.

The word 'network', which was scarcely used before the late nineteenth century, is now overused as both a verb and a noun. To the ambitious young insider, it is always worth going to the next party, no matter how late it is, for the sake of networking. Sleep may be appealing, but the fear of missing out is appalling. To the disgruntled old outsider, on the other hand, the word network has a different connotation.

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

That story always seemed very symbolic to me...Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.

If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

God Doesn't Take Delight in Earthly Sacrifices Without Spiritual Connotation, but He Takes Pleasure in Total Submission

It's not what you do, it's what it means.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

It's kind of a negative connotation that CrossFit gets. It's all dependent on the person and it has to be scaled accordingly.

What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

Everything means something, but not every something matters.

He was attaching meanings to words of a symbolical kind. A serious symptom, to be noted on the card.

France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

All terms with negative prefixes are already stereotyped language.