Word Quotes
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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. -
Why do people use the word ‘kids’? It makes children sound like small goats.
Nicholas Parsons
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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.
Rebecca Serle -
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 -
I don't do the same show twice. I've never done a show word for word.
Norm Crosby -
It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.
Elizabeth Scott -
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Michael Jackson
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A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.
Beryl Markham -
My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.
Gautama Buddha -
The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.
Malachy McCourt -
Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.
Elizabeth Scott -
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 -
Sacrifice your life rather than your word.
Stonewall Jackson
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I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Sarah Addison Allen -
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
Emil Cioran -
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe...
Bel Kaufman -
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 -
Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, fame. It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.
Harry Dean Stanton
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Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.
Evan Esar -
I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.
Nellie Bly -
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