Misnaming Quotes & Sayings

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work. — Glenn Tipton

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older. — Tyler Perry

Love at first sight'some say misnaming
Discovery of twinned helplessness
Against the huge tug of procreation.
But friendship at first sight? This also
Catches fiercely at the surprised heart
So that the cheek blanches then blushes. — Robert Graves

Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think. — Roald Hoffmann

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday. — Elizabeth Noble

Sexy is attitude, but fitness for me is my dance. I dance two hours nearly every day. You break into good sweat, and it doesn't even feel like exercise. Apart from that, I enjoy Pilates. — Jiah Khan

Love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day ...
A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive! — Ruskin Bond

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. — Marcus Aurelius

Be young at heart. Remember back when you were young and what made you happiest then. Recapture the simplicity and wonder of youth and make it a state of mind. — Susan Stovall

Freedom is free will. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. — Andy Warhol

When you start a session in R, the variables you create are in the global environment., — Michael J. Crawley

Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation. — Audre Lorde

Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves. — Will Schwalbe