Usage Quotes

Usage Quote of the day

The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Everyone have power of brain but people don't know correctly time of usage. winner just know when, where & how to usage it.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.

It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.

Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called "intellectuals" in standard usage, as he would be the first to agree.

Usage is the best language teacher.

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference.

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.

I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

Language usage always has a political context.