Monotonous Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition. — Nancy Kress

Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry. — Michael Franti

Helping raise money for kids - there's nothing better than that. — Tim Tebow

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts. — Albert Einstein

If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. — Ridley Scott

One of his motivating passions was to build a lasting company. At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. " I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company," he recalled." The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating. When i got the chance to come back to Apple, I realized that I would be useless without the company, and that's why I decided to stay and rebuild it. — Walter Isaacson

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. — Iain Duncan Smith

Everything in a wide sense is a kind of a self-portrait. It's just the way you see things and you're curious about certain things and just excited about them. — Jurgen Teller

The thing we learned the most with the Xbox is the Xbox Live experience. — Satya Nadella

Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen them and know them - some of them I know really well. Although the stories are sometimes gritty and unsettling, my hope is that in the end they hit a positive note. — Arthur Bradford

It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number. — John Roberts

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato

The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being. — Mark Steyn