Word Quotes
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The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
Harold Pinter
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Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
Aristotle
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
Idries Shah
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I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.
Morgan Freeman
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
Walker Percy
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MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)...
Eddy Arnold
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
Walker Evans
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Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
Bram Stoker
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“The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.”
Beano Cook
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
Sophocles
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The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
D. Elton Trueblood
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Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.
Albert Einstein
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
Adam McKay
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
Kate Forsyth
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There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
Pythagoras
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I'm a man of my word.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
Natalia Makarova
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The word impossible is not French.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Here's the exact date: The day I got word we were dropped by the label was on Monday 25th September 1990, a year later than I remembered!
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
Andrew Vachss
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Don't say the F word, it's rude.
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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It would be naive to take the IRA at its word,
Ian Paisley