Charles Bukowski

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.

American Author

Michael Wolff

Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.

Jack Lemmon

I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

American Actor

Victor Grignard

Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

French Scientist

Camille Paglia

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Alan Ball

Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

American Director

Graham Joyce

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

English Writer

Use 'bromide' to describe dull, obvious advice that lacks depth.

Overused Wisdom

'Bromide' implies the author uses unoriginal expressions. Good for critiques.

Avoid in Novels

Don't use 'bromide' in everyday conversation; it can seem pretentious or insulting.

Conversational Caution

'Bromide' in medicine refers to drugs with bromine. Used often in the past.

Medical Jargon

Bromides were once common sedatives, but are rare in modern medicine.

Historical Context

Focus on 'bromine' to understand the significance of 'bromide' in chemistry.

Chemical Component

'Bromide' is an old photography term for a certain type of print.

Photography Term

'Bromide' as a photo term is outdated; use 'print' or 'photograph' in modern contexts.

Obsolete Usage

 this morning this session last year and as you're thinking about the impact of these things the first thing you've got to talk about is how it affects people because there's a management bromide out there that people are the most important part of any organization and you start

Rethinking manufacturing...

 how could doctors stop this from happening? Physicians like Sir Charles Locock hypothesized that sedative drugs might calm overactive brain activity, a theory he confirmed by treating seizures with a medication called potassium bromide.