Word Quotes

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

Mum's the word.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.