Word Quotes
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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.
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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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.
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The echo of a kind word can be heard to the moon and beyond.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
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If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
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A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
