Top 35 Connotation Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Connotation Quotes from famous people such as Noah Centineo, Mark Hamill, Ivanka Trump, Luke Bryan, John Russell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I love Bon Iver. I would never put a negative connotati

I love Bon Iver. I would never put a negative connotation on that man’s name!
Noah Centineo
When you say ‘comic book’ in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.
Mark Hamill
Nobody says ‘a working man,’ but they say, ‘a working woman.’ And there is still a strange connotation to that.
Ivanka Trump
I’ll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It’s in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.
Luke Bryan
The name ‘reservation’ has a negative connotation among Native Americans – an intern camp of sorts.
John Russell
I think YouTube used to have a negative connotation, like it was the place where the rejects went and made careers, but I’m proud to be YouTuber. I wanted to be in that first generation of YouTube stars who transitioned into the ‘real world.’ It was a really good way to build my business.
Lindsey Stirling
Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word ‘blue’ in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.
David Carson
In America especially, if you’re Chinese and you work at a restaurant, there’s a certain connotation among the Chinese immigrant community: It’s the first generation that opens restaurants as a way to survive. You open to support your family so your kids can become doctors and lawyers.
Lulu Wang
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
Mark Skousen
I think ‘weird’ is an interesting way to say ‘unique.’ It has a strange connotation, but weird is good. If you embrace your weirdness, you’ll be on the way to becoming who you are.
Ben Falcone
When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them ‘gold bugs.’ A bug is an insect. I don’t call equity bugs ‘cockroaches.’ Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of ‘gold bug.’
Marc Faber
In this industry there’s this ridiculous connotation with women shows that’s it’s got to be difficult, and it’s not true.
Holly Marie Combs
The ‘Weston’ is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn’t willing to go out in the acting world as ‘Tom Jones,’ ’cause I’m Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.
Tom Weston-Jones
A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don’t feel that way. I feel like it’s another medium to reach a broader audience.
Grace Helbig
I’m either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that’s the interesting thing about red hair: there’s that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.
Jessica Chastain
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
I’m actually not a fan of the word ‘woke.’ I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware.
India Arie
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
Edward Sapir
Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I’m not proud of it; I’m just being honest.
Rachel Nichols
I think ‘work’ is anything I’m doing with intention and purpose. There is absolutely no negative connotation to the word ‘work’ for me – I feel lucky that I get to wake up every day and spend my days doing things I believe in.
Jessica Jackley
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
I don’t think that crazy should have a negative connotation – it just means that you’re fun. I think that crazy is just a term that boring people use to describe fun people.
Jenny Mollen
Compromise has a negative connotation.
Abdolkarim Soroush
I don’t understand why ‘obsessive’ has a negative connotation, I’m an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to it.
Boyan Slat
I can stand up for what I believe in. I don’t take the word ‘rebel’ in a negative connotation.
Tiger Shroff
It’s kind of a negative connotation that CrossFit gets. It’s all dependent on the person and it has to be scaled accordingly.
Rich Froning Jr.
Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. ‘Brevetist’ is a better term. I’m trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.
Susan Minot
I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn’t a negative.
Grace Helbig
I don’t love the term gatekeeper because it feels like there’s a negative connotation attached to it, so I prefer to go with litmus test.
Ariel Helwani
Although everything has a political connotation today, ‘Mulk’ is a social film, to be honest. It is not about any political leader, party or ideology.
Anubhav Sinha
And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.
Lindy Boggs
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a grea

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden’s a great man in the sense that he’s influenced the course of history.
Michael Scheuer
Diva has a negative connotation.
Glenn Close
There’s a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and not shy away from that, if that… is what you want to do.
Tory Burch
I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it’s ‘The Stand’ by Stephen King, which is my favorite all time. I read that at least once a year, the version which has 100,000 extra words, which is like the director’s cut and unabridged. I love the story. I love the social connotation to it.
Corey Taylor