Word Quotes
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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.
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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.
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People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word.
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I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.
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When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.
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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.
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The written word is everything.
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A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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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.
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There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.
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A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.”
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A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
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Notice the word ‘noble’ in noble truth. This is a truth to be realized. We are not told to grasp or believe this truth; it isn’t a belief; it isn’t a dogma; it isn’t a metaphysical truth; it isn’t the ultimate reality. It is a very common human experience of loss, identifying with that which is unsatisfactory, with change, with the delusions we create, and the expectations and assumptions we make about our lives
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Your word is your bond.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.
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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.
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“Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.”
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“I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.”
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.
