Play On Words Quotes

• Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.

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  Dave Barry

  Spring   Thinking   Self  

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.2, Ballantine Books

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• Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.

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  Milton H. Erickson

  Dream   Communication   Thinking  

  Milton H. Erickson, Ronald A. Havens (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy”, p.63, Ardent Media

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• I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

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  Jordana Brewster

  Thinking   Play   Play On Words  

  "Jordana Brewster Talks Swimsuits, Reveals Leatherface's Human Side". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. September 29, 2006.

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• To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war.

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  Ralph Bunche

  Peace   War   Believe  

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph J. Bunche - Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• Work like you don't need the money.

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  Joseph Joubert

  Dance   Work   Hippie  

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• We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

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  Niels Bohr

  Play   Degrees   Statistics  

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• Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

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  Satchel Paige

  Love   Inspirational   Life  

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• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational   Motivational   Positive  

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• Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a pretext. Those people that really violate human rights [the West] violate human rights from all perspectives. Typically on the subject of human rights regarding the nations from the south and Cuba they say, "They are not democratic societies, they do not respect human rights, and they do not respect freedom of speech".

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  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Play   Rights   Perspective  

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup.

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  Groucho Marx

  Home   Opportunity   Play  

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