Word Quotes

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

A word after a word after a word is power.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.