Word Quotes

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.

Unhappy is a nice word.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

The written word is everything.

Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.