Word Quotes

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

The word that almost makes me throw up is satin; damask makes me throw up.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

That is a long word: forever!

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.