Attack Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.
Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends ... — Hunter S. Thompson

It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces. — Jodi Picoult

But there was no denying Purvis's ineptitude in the Dillinger hunt. Suspects were found then lost. His informants were hopeless. He raided the wrong apartments. He built no bridges to the Chicago police while annoying other departments. He'd had his car stolen from in front of his house. — Bryan Burrough

Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means. — Ian McEwan

It's always thrilling to encounter the sweep of time in a work of fiction in a way that feels authentic and real. — Michael Chabon

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly? — Laini Taylor