Word Quotes

• We had a word with him about diving and since then the lad's come on leaps and bounds.

  

  Billy Dodds
  • Word
  • Bounds
  • Leaps

• Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Word
  • Developed
  • Techniques

• Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Want
  • Church
  • Upheld

• I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.

  

  David Massengill
  • Writing
  • Happens
  • Dumb

• It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Word
  • Give It

• I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

  

  Eva Braun
  • Money
  • Loving
  • Exchange

• Writing poetry consists in letting the Word be heard behind words.

  

  Gerhart Hauptmann
  • Poetry
  • Word
  • Heard

• Speak but one word to me.

  

  William Morris
  • Speak
  • Word

• 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
  • Word
  • Mature

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Work
  • Word
  • Trust In God

• And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Thoughts
  • Breath
  • Grave

• There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • True
  • Word
  • Scientists

• I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Promise
  • Treacherous
  • Alvin

• Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see the word poverty that makes them feel good, because it means they’re really nice people who care about the poor. When they see the word inequality it makes them upset, because it means you want to take money from them.

  

  Branko Milanovic
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Inequality

• 'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Word
  • Vegetarian
  • Cheese

• 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
  • Word
  • Foundation
  • Vaccines

• It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Happy
  • Word
  • Bitterness

• I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Dream
  • Day
  • Word

• I work seriously with complete integrity. I never, never, never have offered a part to anyone who didn't deserve it, and I've never not delivered when I do offer a part. My word is better than a contract.

  

  James Toback
  • Integrity
  • Word
  • Contract

• One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.

  

  William Alcott
  • Word
  • Vegetables
  • Asparagus

• Writing about Jerusalem was very stressful; every word counts.

  

  Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Writing
  • Count
  • Jerusalem

• I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.

  

  Charlotte Charke
  • Gratitude
  • Hearts
  • Principle

• "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Dust
  • Separate
  • Honour

• Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Mistake
  • Thoughts
  • Word

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