Word Quotes

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

I never use that word, retire.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

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.