Word Quotes
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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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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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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
Sophocles
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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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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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Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
Pythagoras
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The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Last word in lonesome is me.
Eddy Arnold
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I'm a man of my word.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Okay is just a word I use so I won't have to talk about what's inside. Okay is a word that means I am going to keep my secrets.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
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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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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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
Walker Percy
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“The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.”
Beano Cook
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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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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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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell
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Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
Bram Stoker
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There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "
Art Blakey
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Don't say the F word, it's rude.
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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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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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