Word Quotes

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

Nice is the worst word.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.