#usage

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person. ↗

— David Kirk

#breaking #brotherhood #brothers #calls #concept

Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#again #anyone #bit #censor #cool

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#brilliant #british #cooking #dad #eating

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#got #i #racket #respect #tennis

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#bother #calculated #far #foreigner #french

I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi, never "the hoi polloi," because hoi meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant -- indeed something only hoi polloi would say. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#usage #age

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#another #another way #been #being #being used

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#go #into #litigation #machine #out

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#being #better #laws #like #made

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#making #must #respect #retain #sausages