Word Quotes

• I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

  

  Alexey Leonov
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Word

• My word is iron," Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • People
  • Know
  • Come

• No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Help
  • Church
  • Purpose

• I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • World
  • Love
  • Died

• DNCE is “dance without the a.” It’s not a perfect word, and you don’t always have to be a perfect dancer to dance. Life is just sometimes not perfect.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Dance
  • Word
  • Life is

• You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Money
  • Word
  • Advertising

• Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Word
  • Experienced

• The written word is everything.

  

  John Drinkwater
  • Word
  • Written

• 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

• Speak but one word to me.

  

  William Morris
  • Speak
  • Word

• A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Wise
  • Word
  • Unnecessary

• If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

  

  Bradford Morrow
  • Idea
  • Revelation
  • Wrote

• If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • People
  • Matter
  • Word

• I don't do the same show twice. I've never done a show word for word.

  

  Norm Crosby
  • Word
  • Show
  • Twice

• Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Justice
  • Practice
  • Word

• Marketing only really works with word of mouth.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Marketing
  • Works
  • Mouth

• A piece of rusty pump and a pile of stones,--all that was left of the place he and Marthy had called home. Home. What a big word that was. Lots of attempts made lately to belittle it. Plenty of fun poked at it. Young folks laughed about it,--called it a place to park. Everybody wanted to get some place else, seemed like. They'd find out. They'd understand some day. When they got old, they'd know. They'd want to go home. sometimes in their lives everybody wanted to go home.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Laughed

• En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knows
  • Condition
  • Miserable

• I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Word
  • Emphasize

• The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

  

  Dan Kieran
  • Should
  • Dictionary
  • Hammockable

• God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word.

  

  Albert Mohler
  • Word
  • Hear
  • Obey

• "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

• In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

  

  Al Capone
  • Life
  • Word
  • Balls

• Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human being. The greatest reward that God bestows on man is eloquence and poetry. This is not an exaggeration, for it is the gift of the poet that culminates, in time, with the gift of prophecy.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • World
  • Things
  • Word

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