(6 quotes found)
“Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap”
Jacques Barzun
“We think it brings a name that denotes mobility.”
David Ditzel
“Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value,”
Harry Belafonte
“I would like to have a name like 'hybrid' denote this is a great, fuel-efficient vehicle. Point of fact, the auto manufacturers are using the hybrid terminology to fool people.”
Danielle Fugere
“LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris”
Ambrose Bierce
“He wasn't a boxer, but that's a general term that we would use to denote changes in the brain of a degenerative nature, ... They can be from one intensely traumatic injury, or they can be from repetitive and cumulative injuries, which is what we believe happened here.”
Cyril Wecht
