Connotation Quotes

• Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.'

  Steve Carell

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Steve Carell Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliché responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

  David Icke

  Men, Doe, Stories

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Vocabulary, Important, Transition

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• I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

  Carrie Underwood

  Strong, Feminist, Negative

  "A Venn Diagram of Hollywood's Confused Feminists" by Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. October 12, 2015.

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• To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.205, New World Library

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• For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

  Mark Skousen

  Friday, Strong, Black

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• When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

  Mark Hamill

  Book, Thinking, America

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• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Feminist, Negative

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• I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Couple, Gay

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• Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

  Dario Fo

  Culture, Negative, Used

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• The word diva has a negative connotation.

  Glenn Close

  Negative

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Sex, Negative, Pity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

  Alexander Wang

  Thinking, Creative, Mind

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• Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Attitude, Thinking, Color

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• ...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.

  Carl Gustav Hempel

  Math, Might Use, Body

  Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• One thing that I like to do is use words that have never actually been used in a rap song before. I also like to take words that have negative connotations and show their real meaning.

  Kanye West

  Song, Real, Rap

  Source: fionaapplerocks.tumblr.com

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• My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.

  Ani DiFranco

  Wise, Writing, Air

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• I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Writing, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

  John Darnielle

  People, Negative, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But a problem arises because whenever I use words, those words have connotations in your mind. When I say 'Celebrate', you think one has to be happy. How can one celebrate when one is sad? I am not saying that one has to be happy to celebrate. Celebration is gratefulness for whatsoever life gives to you. Whatsoever existence gives to you, celebration is a gratitude; it is a gratefulness.

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Thinking, Giving

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• I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and I close my eyes and the connotations or the image I get in my head, combine with the sound of them - sometimes phonetics. I'm just stringing those together.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Eye, Together, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Soul

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• You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.

  Miesha Tate

  Moving, Mma, Trying

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• Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mind, Different, Incredibles

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• I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

  Josh Radnor

  Thinking, Cynical, Negative

  "Josh Radnor & Elizabeth Olsen Are Okay With Being Earnest In ‘Liberal Arts’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

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