Word Quotes

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

Arlene J. Chai
- Needs
- Empty
- Filling
Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
- Sky
- Word
- Sunny Day

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

Albert Einstein
- Good
- Live
- Future
On occasion, Frau Mertens, looking clean and fresh, would walk out into the fields to see how things were going. She had a colonial largesse about her. By way of greeting, she said “Heil Hitler” to us, with a smile. We would straightened up from the muddy earth and stare at her. No one said a word. She seemed disappointed.

Edith Hahn Beer
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Michael Douglas
- Word
- Greed
- Lack
If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

Abdullah ibn Mubarak
- Speak
- Word
- Replace
In the first piece that you Beckett wrote about me circa 1946, you never once used the word color. That was important. I was struck by it.

Bram van Velde
- Word
- Wrote
- Struck
No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly."

Edmund Snow Carpenter
- People
- Word
- Distinction