Word Quotes
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
Eminem
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The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
Sophocles
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Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.
Kate Morton
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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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We don't have a watchdog in fashion, we don't have HR to go to, so it is important to get that word out to someone whether it's an agent or someone like me and we should all come together and figure out what we can do.
Bethann Hardison
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
Idries Shah
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The F-word here is focus.
Jan Koum
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Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
Ashok K. Banker
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Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
Bram Stoker
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If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.
Rachel Bloom
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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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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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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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MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)...
Eddy Arnold
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This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.
Gaston Bachelard
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The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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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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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
Andrew Vachss
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
Fritz Perls
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Well, that's what everyone wants, isn't it? Even these people who go out and have their noses shaved down to pencil erasers, and who get implants, and fillers, and who Botox their faces into immobility, they're all in search of the miracle that's going to make them feel like..." She searched for the word. "Like themselves.
Beth Harbison
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I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
Natalia Makarova
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Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.
Albert Einstein