"Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?"

-- William Safire

#Writing Quotes #Nouns Quotes #Use Quotes

“Don't think because there's a ring on your finger, you needn't try anymore.”
“As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.”
“If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.”
“I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.”
“We live in a society which is so saturated with sexuality that it perhaps is more troublesome now, because of that fact, for a person to look beyond their gender orientation to other aspects of who they are.”

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“One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.”
“Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.”
“Obviously, this isn't my normal life, traveling to cities and talking to journalists. It's fun. It's really fun. I get to stay in a cool hotel and eat good food and meet cool people, but that's not my normal life. It's pretty pedestrian. I have coffee in the morning, I go for a run, and then I write for as long as I possibly can.”

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