Word Quotes

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

The only power you have is the word no.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'