Word Quotes
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.
Aristotle
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And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it.
Abigail Williams
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.
Courtney Love
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Pixiophobia: a fear of Pixies.
I made this up, but believe me it should be a word because it sure is a legitimate fear.
Carrie Jones
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I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
Homer
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvahs, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat.
Harpo Marx
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Hugo and I sat together in the chapel and didn’t say a word to each other. We’d already said them all, in better times and in better places.
Craig Lancaster
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
Al Pacino
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When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.
Flannery O'Connor
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If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."
Brigham Young
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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
Franz Kafka
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Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.
Carrie Ann Inaba
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We've put the word out for a lot of our friends in Hawaii, but we're not going to spoil the surprise
Jim Messina
Buffalo Springfield
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If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
Suzanne Vega
