Portmanteau Word Quotes & Sayings

The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. — Norman Tebbit

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign. — James A. Owen

I wasn't looking for notoriety [when we marched]. But if that's what it took [to get attention], I didn't care how many licks I got. It just made me even more determined to fight for our cause. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

Once we forget those who have contributed time and effort in making an endeavor successful, we forget ourselves. — Beem Weeks

Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if he sees something that is real to him, he'd look up at the [camera] operator and if he gives the look to indicate he'd seen it to, then you print and you'd move on. — Matt Damon

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was. — Herb Caen

The biggest regrets people have aren't about what they did, but what they didn't do. — Beverly K. Bachel

An acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time. — Edmund Wilson

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word. — Lewis Carroll

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day! — Arlen Specter

Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures." As — Lisa Kleypas

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan) — William Gibson

I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines. — Patti Hansen