Mention
A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.
To make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name.
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Mention Quotations
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
Eminem
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Colin Powell
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
Jimmy Buffett
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
Galen Rowell
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White
Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
Jerry Lawler
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
Lionel Blue
Mention Translations
mention in Afrikaans is noem, vermeld
mention in Danish is omtale
mention in Dutch is gewag maken van, noemen, vermelden
mention in Finnish is mainita
mention in French is mentionner, mentionnez, mentionnent, mentionnons
mention in Italian is menzionare
mention in Latin is laudo
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