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Usage is like oxygen for ideas. -- Matt Mullenweg
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. -- E. B. White
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. -- Matt Mullenweg
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term. -- Harry Stack Sullivan
What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last. -- Joe Dante
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. -- Douglas Adams
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. -- Bill Bryson
The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity. -- Martin Delany
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. -- George Orwell
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!). -- Augusto Boal
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. -- Elmore Leonard
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others. -- Harry J. Anslinger
Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break. -- Roxane Gay
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.. -- Meg Whitman
I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon. -- Alice B. Toklas
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian. -- Fran Lebowitz
Usage is the best language teacher. -- Quintilian
Usage ain't always a matter of ought. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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. -- Tom Peters
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. -- Matt Mullenweg
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. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Alexander Haig
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
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth. -- John Olver
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. -- Dennis Ritchie
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. -- Joe Dante
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
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. -- Ricky Jay
There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is that there's a really long tail of usage on client devices. -- Michael Dell
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. -- A. E. van Vogt
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual. -- Steven Pinker
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. -- Charlie Worsham
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. -- Alexander Smith
Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space. -- Vint Cerf
Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as the traditional PC market has a long tail of usage, particularly in the commercial world, but also in consumer. -- Michael Dell
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally. -- Edward M. Lerner
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days. -- Geraldine Brooks
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. -- Meg Whitman
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage. -- Gunter Grass
Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there. -- Dustin Moskovitz
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own. -- John Lahr
Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land. -- Vinod Khosla
Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting. -- Chelsea Clinton
Language usage always has a political context. -- Jackson Katz
Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious. -- Winston Graham
Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over. -- Carl Andre
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words. -- Wilson Follett
The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead. -- William Zinsser
Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage. -- Dana Gould
Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots. -- Ovid
I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket. -- Gabriela Sabatini
A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage. -- Robertson Davies
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. -- Peter Diamandis
The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion. -- Adoniram Judson
You gotta think about your category, your replacement cycle, usage, how these things come together and the dynamics are different. -- Hosain Rahman
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' -- Bertrand Russell
If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out. -- Ron Paul
California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state`s first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed. -- Chris Hayes
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity. -- Robert E. Lee
While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage. -- Malcolm Turnbull
I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage. -- Terence McKenna
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal. -- Hal Rogers
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech. -- Arthur Quinn
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion. -- Mary Hunter Austin
Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today. -- Larry Page
Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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. -- Andre Maurois
Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels. -- Charles Kennedy
In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction. -- Lewis Mumford
To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior. -- Steven Sinofsky
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. -- Rodney Crowell
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. -- Jerzy Vetulani
There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order. -- Kat Lahr
C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things. -- Dennis Ritchie
The usage of proper salt is really just a small piece of education. However, I want people to really get the proper nutrition from food for them and their family. -- Wolfgang Puck
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. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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. -- Virgil Goode
When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless. -- Ian Somerhalder
My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage. -- John Maeda
As users replace usage of the web with a mobile, app-centric ecosystem, the phone becomes the center of gravity. In this mobile world, Facebook is just one app on the phone. -- Keith Teare
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. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit. -- James Dobson
"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." -- Jim Herrick
Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement. -- Andrew Hogue
I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage. -- Kevin Moffett
...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 -- Aravind Adiga
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. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Larry Page

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