Word Quotes

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'