Word Quotes

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.

Every creature is a word of God.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

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.