Word Quotes
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian -
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
Charles Dickens
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
Ed Westwick -
There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
Dan Hicks -
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.
Jane Austen -
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White -
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett -
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
Origen
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I hate the word sexy.
Ursula Andress -
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings -
Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
Rabih Alameddine -
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!
Naomi Shihab Nye -
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
Ted Nelson -
The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent."
George Michael
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
Adam Grant -
I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
Felicity Jones -
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
Cam Newton -
The echo of a kind word can be heard to the moon and beyond.
Katrina Mayer -
The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
Zola Jesus
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Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
Octave Mirbeau -
Hiraeth means homesickness to a home to which you cannot return: the grief of the lost places of your past. I fell in love with the word and instantly connected to it. It reminded me of the days when I had left my home in Gwalior, and I had that strange pull in my stomach, and now I can so relate to this word.
Harshvardhan Rane -
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott -
I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.
Vince Gilligan