Word Quotes
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All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.
Socrates
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Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad...
Brian Houston
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Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
William Styron
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I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.
Jeremy Irvine
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...
George Clooney
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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
Berton Braley
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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
Gautama Buddha
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The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.'
Adam Leipzig
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If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
Alan Alda
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And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.
Bradley Nowell
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I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually 750. I tried to save revision for the weekends, when I had more consecutive hours to string together.
Christopher Castellani
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It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
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We don't accept their word, ... If they turn to violence, that is their doing, and they will turn to violence if they don't get their way.
Ian Paisley
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I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
Johnny Depp
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.
Charles Dickens
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Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
Hannah Arendt
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One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to get over.
Olav H. Hauge
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Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation.
Bill Gates
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
Bernard Crick
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Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.
Sarah Dessen
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There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?
Mikhail Lermontov