Word Quotes
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The only power you have is the word no.
Frances McDormand
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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.
Jane Austen
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
Ted Nelson
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
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Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
Gary Lineker
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
Ted Cruz
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Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor.
Eric Drooker
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Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
Walker Evans
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
Nathaniel Philbrick
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
Fabrice Muamba
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The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.
Evan Esar
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White
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It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.
Little Richard
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
Mandy Patinkin
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
Vanessa Williams
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Risk is not a dirty word.
Walter Wriston
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The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
Edith Stein
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
Oriana Fallaci
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
Rafael Palmeiro
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YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
Eddie Cantor
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A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
Lev Vygotsky