Word Quotes
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Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?
Amitav Ghosh
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The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).
Charles Heiser -
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The moment the word 'why' crosses your lips, you are doing theology.
Carolyn Custis James -
A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
Thomas Carlyle -
I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.
Martin Luther -
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.
Whitney Chadwick
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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.
Ernest Hemingway -
When a man says his word is as his bond - get his bond.
Thomas Dewar -
The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.
Alexandra Stoddard -
A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
Al Ries -
I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired.
Carlton Pearson -
There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?
Diana Peterfreund
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Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
Albert Einstein -
If you want to live a big, spacious, abundant life like Jesus, especially when life gets difficult, then make the daily decision to believe God at his Word.
Brian Houston -
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
Elia Kazan -
Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
Adam Young -
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
William Styron -
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
Evel Knievel
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
Etty Hillesum -
When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.
André Brink -
I wish my wife would work because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.
Nat Hentoff