#synonym

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. ↗

— David Bowie

#become #camp #camper #departure #did

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dawn #does #eclipse #endless #entitled

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#called #dictionary #great #made #memory

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. ↗

— Henry Adams

#anarchist #art #i #i am #impressionist

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#spell #synonym #thought #use #word

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#claims #coming #future #hour #indifferent

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion. ↗

— Roy Moore

#god #indeed #religion #synonymous

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. ↗

— John Barrymore

#fifth #had #i #i am #solomon

I think for us - the Weinstein name, the Miramax name - they've both become synonymous with brands. We have a real winning formula when it comes to championing a different kind of movie, and I think the audience trusts us. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#become #both #brands #championing #comes