Word Quotes

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

The motto was "Pax," but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

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.'

If I ever uttered one word that I said in 'Kick-Ass', I would be grounded for years! I'd be stuck in my room until I was 20! I would never in a million years say that.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.