Word Quotes

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

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.

Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.

If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.