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Quotes About Mention

I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.
~ Michael J. Fox
In the presidential debates back in 2008 and 2012, the candidates clearly didn't know how to make climate change resonate with voters - if they mentioned it at all.
~ Tom Steyer
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
~ Stephen Fry
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
~ Laurence Sterne
Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.
~ Louise Mensch
I wouldn't have mentioned the fellow to you at all, only it was from his lips that I first heard the name of the man who is so indissolubly connected with the memories of that time.
~ Joseph Conrad
I hereby give notice," the Lord Chancellor said, "that these proceedings are Deep Counsel as defined in the Offences Against the Crown Act. That means that any mention of them after the meeting ends is automatically classed as high treason unless you can prove that His Majesty's safety required you to speak. That includes mention to anyone else who was present.
~ Dave Duncan
Ancient writers, we have seen, more often mention exorcism than anything else as a cause of conversion to Christianity.
~ Alan Kreider
I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the woods. They scare me. All men. Dirty and wearing red.
~ Edan Lepucki
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
~ J.I. Packer
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
~ Neal Stephenson
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
~ Rita Dove
One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.
~ Michael Bywater
In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.
~ Anthony Albanese
Look, if we go in the front, they'll both want to fuss over you, and we won't have any privacy, and I can't mention ghosts and weird things in front of them." "You know, cher , I've had a lotta girls talk me into their bedrooms, but this is the first time I've heard that excuse.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Look, Percy continued, I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties- He mentioned it! one of the ghosts whimpered.
~ Rick Riordan
I've noticed that some Democrats, who seldom mention their faith or maybe never mention their faith, will seize on to a phrase that Pope Francis may have said, and they want to attach themselves to that agenda. Political opportunists is what they are.
~ Steve King
There is no positive outlook about Shawn Kemp in Seattle. When that name is mentioned, it brings nothing but negativity.
~ Shawn Kemp
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
~ C. Everett Koop
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
~ Samuel Johnson
For death holds no mention of You. In Sheol who can acclaim You? -Psalm 6:6
~ Robert Alter
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
~ Tim Ferriss