Word Quotes

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it.

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

The motto was "Pax," but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

If I ever uttered one word that I said in 'Kick-Ass', I would be grounded for years! I'd be stuck in my room until I was 20! I would never in a million years say that.