I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.
In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.
For the first time in 18 years, we managed to get through one of these semiannual congressional testimonies without a bottle of Advil in one hand and a Thesaurus in the other.
Can I tell you how amazing you are? I need a better vocabulary or book or thesaurus or something to find the right words to describe you.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.