Word Quotes
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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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The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.
Malachy McCourt
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Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.
Ellery Schempp
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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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Don't use the word gay unless it's an acronym for GAY (Got Aids Yet?) .
Bob Dornan
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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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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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Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.
Buck Brannaman
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Every tounge bit had another word to say.
Ned Vizzini
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
Gautama Buddha
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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
Ray Bradbury
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Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
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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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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
Haruki Murakami
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The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things.
Tertullian
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A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.
Marcel Proust
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FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.
Steve Jobs