Guessed Thesaurus Quotes

What is another name for a Thesaurus? ~ Steven Wright

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There's no synonym for thesaurus ~
the closest one is hashtags. ~ Beryl Dov

I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus. ~ Gypsy Rose Lee

The man is not wholly evil – he has a Thesaurus in his cabin." (Captain Hook as described by J. M. Barrie in Peter Pan) ~ Debra Eve

I entered the word "crisis" into Thesaurus.com, it suggested "hot potato" as a synonym. I could not write this book without letting you know that Thesaurus.com lists "hot potato" as a synonym for "crisis. ~ Aziz Ansari

A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory ... dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it. ~ Rumer Godden

I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that. ~ Rude Jude

Never would I have guessed I'd fall so comfortably into the role of husband and father. Never would I have guessed I'd be married to a human. And I certainly wouldn't have guessed I'd be so happy without spirit. ~ Richelle Mead

Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation. ~ John Hagelin

I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus. ~ Demetri Martin

Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that. ~ Tinie Tempah

She had known for months now that something or someone would have to break to end this painful stalemate they were locked in. She had never guessed it would be Dominic. She had never guessed Dominic could be broken. ~ Laura Andersen

What's another word for thesaurus? ~ Steven Wright

Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus. ~ Lori Lesko

You don't want to sound as though you used a Sharper Image catalogue for a thesaurus. ~ Renni Browne

You have that expression on your face that speaks of incipient moral dubiousness,' Torin observed, making me glad I'd bought that thesaurus a few years back. ~ Rachel Hawkins

Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her ... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day. ~ Darynda Jones

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. ~ Stephen King

You are a cad,' he told himself. 'A cur. A bounder. A scoundrel. A ... human thesaurus. ~ Sarah M. Eden

Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones. ~ Jeff Anderson

I had recently come into the possession of a Thesaurus. You would not believe how many words there are! When I opened that book, I was like, whoa! Word party! ~ The Harvard Lampoon

But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice
guessed and refused to believe
that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children ... ~ Thomas Pynchon

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. ~ Dorothy Fields

So. Her husband-to-be was a philanderer. A smooth operator. A debaucher. A rake. A frisker. (Jane was something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.) ~ Cynthia Hand

My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus. ~ Craig Ferguson

The Thesaurus is to the writer what a rhyming dictionary is to
the songwriter - a reminder of all the choices - and you should use it with
gratitude. ~ William Zinsser

It seems that, depending upon which side of the thesaurus-writer's gaze we sit, one's uniqueness can be deemed to be either eccentric or distinctive. Both, in my opinion, are good. ~ Fennel Hudson

I ought to have guessed that a person like her
a person who you could tell had a deep inner certitude of self which comes from being all of one piece, of not being shreds and patches and old cogwheels held together with pieces of rusty barbed wire and spit and bits of string, like most of us
I ought to have guessed that that kind of person would not be surprised into answering a question she didn't want to answer. ~ Robert Penn Warren

Last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you but could only find rain and more rain and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, like an orchestra. ~ Shinji Moon

it was all so new to her, he guessed. ~ Anne Tyler

Everything had the potential, she guessed. Propping ~ Suzanne Jenkins

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy? ~ Andrew Davidson

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings. ~ Ramana Maharshi

He'd paid all his taxes, so that left ... you guessed it. ~ David Rakoff

I realized with horror that I'd left my thesaurus in English class, and so wouldn't be able to describe their beauty in suitably poetic terms, but let me tell you, they were smokin' hot and no bullshit. ~ Stephfordy Mayo

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency. ~ Paul Johnson

Generations of British writers would look up to Roget as a kindred soul who could offer both emotional as well as intellectual sustenance. In the stage directions to Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie includes an homage to Roget: The night nursery of the Darling family, which is the scene of our opening Act, is at the top of a rather depressed street in Bloomsbury. We might have a right to place it where we will, and the reason Bloomsbury is chosen is that Mr. Roget once lived there. So did we in the days when his Thesaurus was our only companion in London; and we whom he has helped to wend our way through life have always wanted to pay him a little compliment. For Barrie, Roget's masterpiece was synonymous with virtue itself. To describe the one saving grace of the play's villain, Captain Hook, Barrie adds, "The man is not wholly evil--he has a Thesaurus in his cabin. ~ Joshua Kendall

I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me ~ Emilie Autumn

I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark ~ Bennett Madison

One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to gather evidence for her case; spending some quality time with the Thesaurus; and then taking a large blunt hammer and pounding the message home. ~ Ben Yagoda

And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248) ~ Rebecca Goldstein

She's stubborn? Huh. I wouldn't have guessed that. But actually, I kinda like it. ~ Michelle Leighton

Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate? ~ Francis Chan

You're 83? Really? You don't look it. I would've guessed 81 or 82. ~ Bobby Heenan

Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards. ~ Toni Morrison

Hugh's grunt sounded hollow in the night air. How dense of me not to have guessed the truth. ~ Sandra Ardoin

shall." I think I finally guessed then what ~ Robin Hobb

If Harry had not known who lived there, he would have guessed at a rich, fussy old lady. ~ J.K. Rowling

I also decided I want to have a meaningful relationship. But only with one person. And then stay with that person for a long time. Like, uh, monography."
Stephen types a few keys in a quick rhythm. "It's shame your epiphany wasn't accompanied by a thesaurus. ~ Valerie Z. Lewis

Drake chimed in, "No, Mortimer or Horatio - something long suffering and filled with angst."
"Mortimer? Horatio? What the hell is angst? What kind of word is that? Dude, have you been reading a thesaurus again? What did I tell you about using words you can't understand? ~ Kris Michaels

My husband," Amaranthe said.
"Really! I would have guessed bodyguard."
Yes, even without visible weapons, he had that aura. ~ Lindsay Buroker

I should have guessed Kashmir would become a nuisance. And a bad influence. But most importantly, a friend. ~ Heidi Heilig

To everyone who's ever second-guessed a decision they've made, our past makes us who we are. Have no regrets. ~ Karyn Bosnak

The people hustling by her would never have guessed that less than twelve hours ago she'd looked like a cross between Carrie and Mrs Havisham. ~ Mia Thompson

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? ~ Jennifer E. Smith

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest. ~ Kay Ryan

Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leaving behind them piles of small slim volumes of literary criticism. ~ Terry Pratchett

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. ~ Jon Stewart

If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness. ~ Alice Hoffman

If I wasn't certain you were bigger than my thumb, I should've guessed your dress was fashioned from rose petals and spiders' web. ~ Jessica Brockmole

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies
these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either. ~ C.S. Lewis

She'd guessed it was partly borne of a private education. Now she pictured him on yachts, as well as attending Hogwarts. ~ Mhairi McFarlane

Unfortunately, many people walk around with the belief that everyone else is happy except for them. And - you guessed it - this belief creates even more unhappiness. ~ Russ Harris

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense. ~ Wale

She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed. ~ Bob Seger

But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars. ~ Tiffanie DeBartolo

Between the two desks was one of those old Chinese screens, but even this bore Jenna's stamp, as the wood had been painted
you guessed it: pink. ~ Rachel Hawkins

I have committed another crime, Hadley,' he said. 'I have guessed the truth again. ~ John Dickson Carr

I never would have guessed that matches and lighters would be among the things I'd miss the most if civilization collapsed ~ Mike Mullin

The darkness was full, fuller than she would ever have guessed, and she found this curiously comforting. ~ Rachel Hartman

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing. ~ Amy Hempel

She thought, just for a second, that they were going to bare fangs at each other . . . and then Myrnin smiled. "I suppose I should say thank you."
"It would be customary," Oliver agreed.
Myrnin turned to Claire. "Thank you."
Somehow, she guessed that wasn't what Oliver had expected; she certainly hadn't. It was the kind of snub that got most people hurt in Morganville, but then again, she guessed Myrnin wasn't most people, even to Oliver.
Oliver didn't react. If there was a small red glow in the depths of his eyes, it could have been a reflection from the lights. ~ Rachel Caine

Don't ya'll have anything better to do than to mess with Myles?" she asked. "Sadly, Mom, they don't," Myles said. It's the only respite they have from their monotonous, inconsequential tedium of an existence." Amir's eyes widened. "Duck, Pop! He's gonna big word us to death." Amir lifted his forearm. "Thesaurus-shields up! ~ Marcus Major

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts. ~ Olaf Stapledon

My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked. ~ Polly Horvath

The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway. ~ Deborah Levy

Maybe I'd already guessed that the physics of us didn't defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction. ~ Robyn Schneider

I met two twins, each named Dakota. I nicknamed the older one North, and the younger one I called - you guessed it - Cock Tease. ~ Jarod Kintz

David knew we were meeting in the Kettle," said Genya," and he guessed about the master flue."
David frowned. "I don't guess. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Who could have guessed at the dawn of the 21st century, the seminal technology upon which 5000 years of modern science had resulted was the click? ~ Ken Goldstein

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. ~ William Manchester

Testing Testing, im just suggesting. you and i might not be the best thing. Exit exit somehow i guessed it right, right! ~ Josh Ramsay

I had never actually seen an eight-pack, but there it was, right in front of me. I guessed that even slightly strange, silent hermits weren't exempt from exceptional physiques. Good for him. ~ Mia Sheridan

desktop and the letter fluttered onto the stack of bills. Minutes ticked by. All those late nights - the clinic, the gym, the hospital, the conferences. She should have guessed. When did it start? ~ Nancy Allan

I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends. ~ Malcolm Bradbury

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories. ~ Paula McLain

We could never have guessed
We were already blessed
where we are ... ~ James Taylor

His eyes searched hers. I'd rather just be me. Feel comfortable in my own skin and be able to speak my mind without having to carry a damned thesaurus. Sure doesn't seem worth giving up who you are to please others. Far as I'm concerned, they either like me or they don't. Their choice. ~ Leah Braemel

This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemies - you've guessed it - is gratitude. ~ Auliq Ice

The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer. ~ Shannon L. Alder

She was used to taking the world as it was, she'd never have guessed you could get what you wanted by asking for it. ~ Janet Fitch

There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology. ~ Myka 9

A truth guessed is about as good as a lie. ~ Sarah Pussell

I guessed that he would have a passionate bedfellow that night, but would never know to what prickings of conscience he owed her ardor. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Celeste, for example, was fuming. I guessed if you had a lot of money, you got used to the idea of collecting it. And the thought that someone like me would be ~ Kiera Cass

Sandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow. ~ W.P. Kinsella

He was trying to decide if she was pretty. If you had to think about it, he guessed the answer was no. ~ Jean Thompson

Percival guessed that his prey preferred to listen, letting her friends carry on with whatever amusing nonsense filled their lives, while she privately assessed their habits, cataloging their strengths and faults with clinical ruthlessness. ~ Danielle Trussoni

Everything unsaid can be guessed
Truth may not always be confessed ~ Munia Khan