Example Sentences

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“One thing that he said is, ‘What’s mentionable is manageable.’

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2020

As Chris Loggins, supervising producer for “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” put it, they are following one of Fred Rogers’s guiding principles: “He would say, ‘What’s mentionable is manageable.’”

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2020

"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable," he famously said.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2018

Or, as Mr. Rogers says, ‘If it’s mentionable, it’s manageable.’

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2016

So she goes to that place where all things go that are not mentionable, taking her blond hair, her angora sweater, her ordinariness with her.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood