Word Quotes

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.

Every creature is a word of God.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.