Word Quotes

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

I hate the word wholesome.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.