Word Quotes
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'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
Ivar Giaever
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Steve Jobs
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My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.
Gautama Buddha
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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
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The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.
Edmond Jabes
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When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Sacrifice your life rather than your word.
Stonewall Jackson
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Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.
Sean Penn
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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
John Drinkwater
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I liked the sound of the word 'snail' every time I said it; the word was as small and simple as the creature itself.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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Women were always ready to give themselves over for love, when all the men really had to offer them was the word and not the meaning behind it.
Bernice L. McFadden
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright
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In the beginning was the word, but it wasn't a fixed number of bits.
Bob Barton
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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos
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I don't take anything Hillary Clinton is going to say at all as true. I'm not going to take her on her word.
Mike Cernovich
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Thoughts are like a train, they'll take us somewhere. Protect by filling with the word of God.
Christine Caine
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.
Rebecca Serle
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In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.
Jimmy Carter
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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
Jennifer Donnelly
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If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.
Eloisa James
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All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people.
Nicholas Boothman
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I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.
William Tucci
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Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.
Thomas Sowell