Top 100 For Word Quotes
#1. I have about 4 albums of Disney songs, but the embarrassing part is that I know each song word for word, and have dances choreographed for most.
Jessica De Gouw
#2. I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll know it word-for-word. That's why I feel like I got my own sound - or a D.C. sound.
Shy Glizzy
#3. I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note - "I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week," - and no further explanation whatsoever."
Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word.
Mercedes Lackey
#4. If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.
Andy Daly
#5. In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Pliny The Elder
#6. I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.
Curtis Jackson
#7. I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get into the character and have the gist of the scene. But in theater, if you don't do it word for word, then you throw off your scene partner.
Morgan Saylor
#8. It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me.
Michael Grant
#9. Whoever said men
hit harder when women
are around, is right.
Word for word,
we beat the love
out of each other.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#10. Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
Aminatta Forna
#11. some could name things in their environment, others could count or say the alphabet, still others could recite whole books, word for word, from memory. However, they rarely used their speech to communicate with others. The
Sally Ozonoff
#12. Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.
Jessica Pare
#13. Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
Anna Deavere Smith
#14. One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'
Sam Horn
#15. Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God ... For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.
Martin Luther
#16. So word for word/My master spoke, and I asked him for the food/To fill the appetite these words inspired.
Dante Alighieri
#17. I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.
Carrot Top
#18. An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
Meridel Le Sueur
#19. As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
Horace
#20. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
Anonymous
#21. I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.
Andrew Stanton
#22. When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
James Altucher
#23. For the first few years I wrote jokes and performed them word for word and then wrote tags for them and did that word for word and that worked pretty well. Now, I do almost all of my writing on stage and then record and listen for any new things and then I write those down.
Gary Gulman
#25. Is she sane?' asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. 'I'll repeat our conversation, word for word, Isabella; and you point out any charm it could have had for you.
Emily Bronte
#26. At risk of being one of those annoying quote folks, a good friend balked at the idea of putting a steroid needle into this one. She said that I should never risk the story for word counts. I have to admit that she had a damned good point and I'm following her advice on this one. Thanks Lee! So
Wayne Lemmons
#27. Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.
Matt Walsh
#28. if the gospels had been identical to each other, word for word, this would have raised charges that the authors had conspired among themselves to coordinate their stories in advance, and that would have cast doubt on them.
Lee Strobel
#29. If thou dost think of me again, O tribune, let it not be lost in thy mind that I prayed thee only for word of my people - mother, sister.
Lew Wallace
#30. As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
Joshua Foer
#31. Sometimes you completely forget your own works, your own poems, and your own words, but others remember them line by line, word for word! That is the greatest present you can ever have for your works!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8
Peter J. Leithart
#33. Pathetic, huh?" He learned that word
from me.
"Yeah. It's like the opposite of a fish,
right?
Hannah Moskowitz
#34. Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.' Such words were futile.
Catherine Cookson
#35. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
George W. Bush
#36. And by the power of a word, I begin my life again.
Paul Eluard
#37. PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.
Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo
#38. Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding."
Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
Tamora Pierce
#39. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK
Elie Jerome
#40. Coward is the most misused word in our society.
Doug Stanhope
#41. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
John Steinbeck
#42. The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.
Joan Wickersham
#43. No holy place existed without us then,
no woodland, no dance, no sound.
Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless
days we spent might be made twice as long.
I prayed one word: I want.
Someone, I tell you, will remember us,
even in another time.
Sappho
#44. If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair.
Ford Madox Ford
#45. It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.
Billy Collins
#46. Savory ... that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.
Ray Bradbury
#47. We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak.
Alberto Villoldo
#48. In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language...Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.
Mary Louise Pratt
#49. I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.
Edward Kennedy
#50. Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.
Nikki Grimes
#51. There's not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah... There are ways to hold the thing up in the light and see a hundred facets, and knowing you, you've found a hundred and one.
Nancy Horan
#52. This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.
Jazz Feylynn
#53. To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#54. I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.
Linda Evangelista
#55. Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.
Honore De Balzac
#56. I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.
Shah Rukh Khan
#57. Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!
Caedmon
#58. The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
Christopher Buckley
#59. Love. People threw that word around like carzy.
Nick Burd
#60. Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
Pythagoras
#61. American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.
Paul Washer
#62. I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.
Will Smith
#63. We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#64. Word on the streets of Chicago in 1963 was that if Chuck Nicoletti got a contract with your name on it, you were already dead-- you just didn't know it yet.
Richard Belzer And David Wayne
#65. I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.
Robbie Williams
#66. Many churches have molded their programs around the community - not the Word of God.
Billy Graham
#67. Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. 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.
Kelly Clarkson
#69. More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
Paul D. Boyer
#70. How is it that a kiss can say so much?
Saying I love you is huge, but to kiss someone who has told you that means everything. A kiss speaks the truth, and I know. I know in his kisses, that he means every single word.
Heather Gunter
#71. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
Johnny Hunt
#72. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.
Howard Thurman
#73. Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#74. The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger
#75. I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Mark Shepard
#77. Trust is just another five letter word, one that comes before not,
Ellen Hopkins
#78. I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
Taio Cruz
#79. I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
George Sand
#80. I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.
Stephen Colbert
#81. The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do not know why, but such was the case. I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.
Mark Twain
#82. I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
John Calvin
#83. I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
Thomas A. Edison
#84. Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens.
Raneem Kayyali
#85. I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.
Joanne Kelly
#86. Happy is a poor word for someone who's trying to live a rainbow-colored life in a black-and-white world.
Kate Bornstein
#87. The more I anoint the more my mind adheres physically to the mysterious fabric of love.
I am decutie. Worn thin. You know that word?
Helene Cixous
#88. My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.
Audrey Hepburn
#89. But before she could speak another word, he crushed his mouth against hers.
Morgan Rhodes
#90. Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."
Ann Coulter
#91. Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.
David Cunliffe
#92. For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.
Eva Figes
#93. The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.
Mary McCarthy
#94. Verily, the word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew, ensures him immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of Allah.
Ibn Saud
#95. When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.
Elizabeth George
#96. Kidding?" He asked; rolling the foreign word over in his mouth like he tasted something sour.
"Yeah, you know. Joking. Ha ha ha." I said.
Micalea Smeltzer
#97. Satan can move in the supernatural realm, too, because he is a spirit being, as is God. You've got to be able to know whether a vision, dream, impression, or suggestion is from God or Satan. Those suggestions that do not line up with the Word are of the devil.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#98. Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?"
"Peng you," I say.
"Peng you," she says, only instead of pung yo, it sounds like penguin. "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.
Andrea Cheng
#99. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.
David Levithan
#100. Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.
Elizabeth Goudge
