Top 100 Not A Word Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Child-- "I can't be patient, that's not a word, so don't even say it mommy."
Mommy-- "What?
Mel Brown
#4. Did you just say 'frolic'?"
"Is it not a word?"
"Who the hell says 'frolic'?"
"I say frolic. And more people should."
"They should say frolic or actually frolic."
"Both.
Robin Benway
#5. The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.
Dwight L. Moody
#6. Not a word, not a word of love, Prehaps, she thought, he does not love in the ordinary way. God loves us, after all, He manifests it in cancer, cholera, Siamese twins. Not all forms of love are comprehensible, and some forms of love destroy what they touch.
Hilary Mantel
#7. I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.
Michael Leunig
#8. There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
Jim Henson
#9. The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.
Bill Gates
#10. To be great is not a word but work that makes a word.
Auliq Ice
#11. Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.
Robert Peel
#12. BEN-HUR." Esther returned the letter to her father, while a choking sensation gathered in her throat. There was not a word in the missive for her
not even in the salutation had she a share
and it would have been so easy to have written "and to thine, peace." For the first time
Lew Wallace
#13. There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told 'College Me' that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would've been like, "That is not a word, and it never should be."
John Green
#14. What is so exquisite is that not a word has been said by me or by her, but we understand each other so well in this unseen language of looks and tones that this evening more clearly than ever she told me she loves me.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting.
Tom Stoppard
#16. I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.
Julian Casablancas
#17. Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
Brian K. Vaughan
#18. The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage.
John Green
#19. Luck is not a word the Society encourages. And it's not something we have much of out here.
Ally Condie
#20. Love is the only thing that makes the world spin around, I think. It's weird. We have to call it "love," because we have to call it something, but it's not a word. It's an energy. It's an act. It's an action. It's a natural thing.
Jason Mraz
#21. A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.
Marty Rubin
#23. Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
Khaled Hosseini
#24. Not a word. Being a hypocrite is the only way people who were once teenagers can be parents without going out of their damn minds.
DiscontentedWinter
#25. In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
W. Somerset Maugham
#26. Fear is not a word in my football documentary.
Jose Mourinho
#27. Weston did not know the Malacandrian word for laugh: indeed, it was not a word he understood very well in any language.
C.S. Lewis
#28. He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.
Derek Landy
#29. Earth and fire and water and air
We solemnly promise, we solemnly swear
Not a word, not a hint, not a sound to declare
Earth and fire and water and air!
Hilda Lewis
#30. 'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.
Romesh Gunesekera
#31. They continued to run together for the next thirty minutes. Not a word between them, only the unspoken pulse of the run. Jacob believed runners shared an implicit doctrine: push through the pain to hit a point where it doesn't hurt anymore.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#32. Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.
Fran Lebowitz
#33. Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed.
Charlotte Bronte
#34. How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic heroines in books tended to be amazingly beautiful. Not a word about swollen eyes or a red nose. "Crying always gives me a red nose," thought Elinor. "I expect that's why I'll never be in any book.
Cornelia Funke
#35. There's not a word nevertheless, for previous pals who've just fulfilled.
Jim Henson
#36. Forever is not a word ... rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there.
Stephanie
#37. Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one.
Wendell Berry
#38. My conversation is probably something like the rain. On some days it pours, and then on other days there's just a clear sky- not a word in sight.
Heather O'Neill
#39. No offense. They're very nice tank tops and giant shirts if you like that sort of stuff, but if you're going to let Prince Alex help you undress each night you might want something a little sexier to slip into." He wiggled his eyebrows. "Not that I'll say a word about it of course. Not a word.
Nichole Chase
#40. Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined
Nicki Minaj
#41. In the subways, in many of the streets, in corners of the park at night, contact could be dangerous. Contact was not a word or a touch but the air that flashed between strangers.
Don DeLillo
#42. On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
Philippe Petit
#44. A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.
Richard Sibbes
#46. Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us - and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone
Wilkie Collins
#47. You ask me why I don't speak
Not a word at will
But write so much worth well over a mill'
Well I value words like I value kisses
A sober one, a closer one penetrates the heart
Darling it's how it mends it
Criss Jami
#48. I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#49. Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys-- of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain.
Peter Heller
#50. There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people, ... The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.
Harry Reid
#51. 'Terrible' is not a word I would use in shooting romantic scenes with Scott Speedman.
Jessy Schram
#52. He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#53. Observe the great Advantage and Benefit, the Privilege and Prerogative that Christ's Servants have beyond all others; Christ writes his Letters to them; there is not a word written to Kings and great Men; but it is to shew his Servants things to come to pass
James Durham
#54. Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.
Ken MacLeod
#55. She has a habit of downplaying trouble. I don't suppose she told you about Tony Vance or Sheldon Kaufman? They were a couple of sorcerers in her last crew." Angus shook his head. "Not a word. What happened to 'em?" "I did.
Craig Schaefer
#56. Christian, is not this very comforting to thee also, that there is not a word which has gone out of the Saviour's lips which He has ever retracted?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#57. The Athenaeum always managed to have a scribe on hand whenever anything interesting seemed like it might happen. Durham avoided scribes, figuring that 'interesting' was not a word that was necessarily synonymous with 'pleasant'.
Jeffery Russell
#58. It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.
Dean Alford
#59. I am still not talking to you," said Liza Hempstock's voice, proud as a peacock and pert as a sparrow. "Actually, you are. I mean, we're talking right now." "Only during this emergency. After that, not a word.
Neil Gaiman
#61. Hero is not a word we use easily, and it had gotten to the point where it had lost all meaning in our community. Everyone was a hero now.
Mark Owen
#62. I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
Thomas Heatherwick
#63. Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
Eugene H. Peterson
#64. There's not a word that describes us. We're not alternative, metal or grunge - we're not any of that. We're just what we are.
Jerry Cantrell
#65. Not a deed would he do,
Not a word would he utter,
Till he's weighed its relation
To plain bread and butter.
James Russell Lowell
#66. I told you. It was interesting' [Annabel]
'Interesting,' he [Owen] said, 'is not a word.'
'Since when?
Sarah Dessen
#67. For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
Ornette Coleman
#68. Impossible is not a word. It's just a reason for someone not to try.
Kutless
#70. Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.
David Malouf
#71. We'd had a hundred conversations with our eyes, with our senses, with our hands and movements, with not a word spoken.
Shelly Crane
#72. Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.
Margo Kaufman
#73. Cars like that shouldn't be left in storage. It causes mechanical issues. With brakes and tires and engines and such."
My smile returned. "You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?"
"Not a word.
Kelley Armstrong
#74. Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
King Vidor
#75. 'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.
Rivers Cuomo
#76. I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
Pamela Anderson
#77. These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.
Richard Perle
#78. Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.
Thomas Aquinas
#79. More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
Keith Morris
#80. Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.
Don McLean
#81. I'm a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he's a genius, and it is not a word I use very often. I think he's fantastic.
Robert Webb
#82. Comamandering is not a word.
It has letters, doesn't it? Sounds like a word to me.
Tahereh Mafi
#83. Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.
Henry Rollins
#85. Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved.
George Orwell
#86. Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.
Jane Pauley
#87. Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead. -Achilles
Homer
#88. From all old seamy throats of elders, musty books, I've salvaged not a word.
Cormac McCarthy
#89. We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.
Margaret Atwood
#90. I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#91. I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
William McKinley
#92. I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
Donatella Versace
#93. If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.
Jose Mourinho
#94. He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.
Ray Bradbury
#95. Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise."
"Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I ...
Leo Tolstoy
#96. Love is not a word or an idea or even a place to go to or a thing to strive for. It is not something to grasp and smother and mold and change. It cannot be orchestrated, played, controlled or manipulated. You can not cup it tenderly in your open hand or wish it into being through fervent prayer.
Vanessa G. Foster
#97. My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.
Wilbur Smith
#98. Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
Carl Sandburg
#99. Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.
Charlaine Harris
