Word Quotes
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"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
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Stability. I'm looking for stability. The key word that Craig said is shared vision. That's what we're excited about.
Eric Hyman
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From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct and definite, authoritative and infallible.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
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Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.
Morgan Freeman
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Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.
Prince
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In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.
Ethan Hawke
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A friend in word is never friend of mine.
Sophocles
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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
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Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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The most I can do is to go as far as I can, writing my own story in the dust with my two feet, word for word.
André Brink
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
Will Cuppy
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Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.
Alistair Beaton
