Word Quotes

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.

I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

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.

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.