„… Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that they had died.“

— Douglas Adams
„This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.“
— Douglas Adams
„and a rather controversial one for birth control that had nevertheless quickly become the most often used rune in the lexicon.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.“
— Terry Pratchett
„There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human words. Precisely for that reason it is the most imperishable and unavoidable.“
— Martin Buber