Word Quotes
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Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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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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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
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What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
Alexandre Dumas
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Within every word there is the unhealable wound of language.
Edmond Jabes
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I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?
Marilyn Monroe
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I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.
Sandra Bullock
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I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.
Stephen Dobyns
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We're really in limbo. Frustrated is the best word I can come up with.
Bob Walker
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We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying to get hints about what we will do.
Hillary Clinton
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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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I believe that we are given an order by Jesus. One of the last things he did was to spread the word of God and he being the basis for our salvation. Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am.
Jimmy Carter
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Suffering and evil will not have the last word.
George Pell
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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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Sacrifice your life rather than your word.
Stonewall Jackson
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle
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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.
George Bernard Shaw
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The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.
Harry Cohn
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There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!
Steven Hill
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'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
Ivar Giaever
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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
Lewis Carroll
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"Failure" isn't a word I really use.
Sebastian Roche
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If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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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