Understandable Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional. — Isabel Allende

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall. — James Van Der Beek

Coaches do get very nervous. — Urban Meyer

Madonna, eat your heart out, Britney Spears, eat your heart out. I would say we have diamond records coming - they're gonna sell 10-million plus. — Spencer Pratt

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, 'howdy-howdy, God,' and we jaw fer a bit.' - Jimmy 'Diamond' Skinner — David Baldacci

We see things by the way we can see, that is, confusingly, and so we almost always see them as they are not. — Mathias Aires

Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot. — Christian Rudder

I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child. — Burt Ward

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy. — James Dyson

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up. — Ryan Lochte

Summer Kingdom farthest west, Autumn next, then Winter, and finally the Spring Kingdom on the Destas Sea. — Sara Raasch

Confucius does his crossword with a pen. — Tori Amos

It is understandable how this shame came into being. The nation made the black man's color a stigma. Even linguistics and semantics conspire to give this impression. If you look in Roget's Thesaurus you will find about 120 synonyms for blacK, and right down the line you will find words like smut, something dirty, worthless, and useless, and then you look further and you find about 120 synonyms for white and they all represent something high, noble, pure, chaste - right down the line. In our language structure, a white lie is a little better than a black lie. Somebody goes wrong in the family and we don't call him a white sheep, we call him a black sheep. We don't say whitemail, but blackmail. We don't speak of white-balling somebody, but black-balling somebody. The word 'black' itself in our society connotes something that is degrading. It was absolutely necessary to come to a moment with a sense of dignity. It is very positive and very necessary. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything? ... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles. — Lorraine Hansberry

To me, my feelings and pride are important. Although I like you it's not enough to be used like that. — Kim Do-Jin