Word Quotes

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.