Word Quotes
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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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Suffering and evil will not have the last word.
George Pell
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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
Lewis Carroll
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My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.
Gautama Buddha
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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 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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Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.
Susan Hill
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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe...
Bel Kaufman
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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 have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.
Nellie Bly
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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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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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We're really in limbo. Frustrated is the best word I can come up with.
Bob Walker
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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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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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If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?
Esther Earl
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To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
Emil Cioran
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The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.
Harry Cohn
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Don't use the word gay unless it's an acronym for GAY (Got Aids Yet?) .
Bob Dornan
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There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.
Ansel Adams
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Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.
Ellery Schempp
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
John Drinkwater
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The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.
Malachy McCourt
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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