68 Pronouns Quotes
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Famous Pronouns Quotes
A person’s use of pronouns offers deep insights into his or her relative authority. If you’re hearing a lot of 'I,' 'me,' and 'my,' the real power to decide probably lies elsewhere. — Chris Voss
The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three. — Ulysses S. Grant
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. — Charles Dickens
Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?' — Winston Churchill
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. — Henry Scott Holland
Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence. — Serge Lutens
And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you. — Nizar Qabbani
I am two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality. — Bevan Lee
Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless. — Sakyong Mipham
In quoting others, we cite ourselves. — Julio Cortazar
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. — Kurt Vonnegut
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? — Marlene Dietrich
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being. — Judith Butler
When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear. — Ntozake Shange
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. — Norman O. Brown
Short Pronouns Quotes
- Pronouns are the enemy of improv. — Craig Cackowski
- The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented. — John Fowles
- The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns. — Martin Luther
- For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone. — Nina Berberova
- You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back. — Patricia Briggs
- The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals. — Antoine Rivarol
Pronounce Quotes
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. — Galileo Galilei
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period. — Prince Charles
Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right. — Warsan Shire
Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.' — Theodor Herzl
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. — Herbert Hoover
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. — Charles Hodge
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. — Leslie Stephen
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it. — Meister Eckhart
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English. — Harry Caray
People Writing About Pronouns
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Chris Voss |
137 | 1 |
 Ulysses S. Grant |
109 | 3167 |
 Charles Dickens |
1001 | 11529 |
 Winston Churchill |
1283 | 22656 |
 Nizar Qabbani |
36 | 2636 |
 Sakyong Mipham |
118 | 1010 |
More Pronouns Quotes
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point. — Holly Near
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position. — Sheila Jeffreys
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being. — Gloria Steinem
Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss. — Mira Grant
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. — Lawrence Wright
The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female. — Roni Horn
Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male? — Carol P. Christ
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection. — Joseph Devlin
The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer. — Maya Angelou
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays. — Karen Elizabeth Gordon
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning. — Frederick Lenz
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation. — Judith Butler
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). — Chelsea Manning
me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three. — Ambrose Bierce
And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself? — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus. — Robert Thurman
I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny! — Arca
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between-we don't even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but people certainly live in it. — Minnie Bruce Pratt
If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? — Carol P. Christ
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do. — Maya Angelou
When I tour with a band, things get more unconscious and more automatic as the tour goes on. Music has to be like natural speech. It's probably like learning a foreign language. Thinking about the use of pronouns is not the passionate part of communicating with people. — John Vanderslice
I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read my students' poems my first impulse is to say, "O, the subject of this pronoun, this 'I,' is whatever kid wrote this poem." The audience for lyric poems is "confessionalized" to some extent. And I think this audience tends to find long narrative poems, for instance, kind of bewildering. — Shane McCrae
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh. — Maya Angelou
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time. Trouble was, in my household it was a no-no to speak English because somehow it is disrespectful to call parents and grandparents "you" - impersonal pronouns are offensive in Vietnamese. — Andrew Lam
We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature. — Gloria Steinem
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse, was at least partly comprehensible to the English, who did not hesitate to take over hundreds of words from it: skirt, window, scrub, sky, give, hit, kick, scatter, scrape, skill, scowl, score, fellow, want, skin, knife, law, happy, ugly, wrong and even the pronouns they and them. — Larry Trask
[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (You perceive I employ a capital initial in the pronoun referring to the Deity; don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkeyism in that usage?). — Herman Melville
They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies. — Charlaine Harris
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