Quotes About Thesaurus

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.

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

Knavery?" Art3mis said after she'd finished reading it. "Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?

Both boys giggled at that one. Then growing more somber, Blakely said, "But man oh man, what a total Babe Lair." "Love Nest." "Herpes Haven." "Penile Palace." "Beaver Trap." Myron tried not to sigh. It was like hanging out with a really annoying thesaurus. He turned to Win and asked what the plan was. "Follow

English, as Charlton Laird has noted, is the only language that has, or needs, books of synonyms like Roget's Thesaurus. "Most speakers of other languages are not aware that such books exist" [The Miracle of Language, page 54].

Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leaving behind them piles of small slim volumes of literary criticism.

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.

To make dictionaries is dull work.

Do Englishmen like intellectual women?' she asked. 'Not if they have any sense, but they have such a high measure of tolerance that it's likely they endure such women out of sheer gallantry. It would be like kissing a Roget's Thesaurus!

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

The dictionary definitions of words you are trying to replace are far more likely to help you out than a scattershot wad from a thesaurus.