Word Quotes
-
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.
-
Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
-
So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
-
Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
-
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.
-
Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
-
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
-
Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.
-
I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.
-
What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
-
There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.
-
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more...
-
See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I’m really feeling. And it doesn’t. It’s a shortcut.
-
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
-
The written word is everything.
-
The word 'modern' is a cliche.
-
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
-
Hype. What a marvellous, misused word. If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius, it wasn't hype; if you hype it and it fails, then it's just a hype.
-
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
-
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.
-
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.
-
Writing poetry consists in letting the Word be heard behind words.
-
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.
-
The moment the word 'why' crosses your lips, you are doing theology.
