Top 100 Quotes About A Word
#1. My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.
David Sedaris
#2. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.
Rae Carson
#3. Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
Roman Jakobson
#4. 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
#5. Kenny, in his late fifties, noticed that senior citizens get free coffee at a local cafe. He asked, "How old do you have to be to be a senior citizen?" The waiter looked at him for a few seconds and without saying a word, poured him a cup of coffee.
Ed Fischer
#6. There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura ... or the Chinese have a better word for it: qi. A life force. An energy. This is the energy that flows within you. It can be shaped, molded, directed.
Michael Scott
#7. It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken
Francis Beaumont
#8. A word Gorgeous is much sexier than a word Beautiful
Rahul
#9. But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?
Joan Wickersham
#10. Should - a word of anguish rather than consolation.
Gena Showalter
#11. In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.
John C. Maxwell
#12. If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.
Amanda Seyfried
#14. I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
Steve Earle
#15. Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don't insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don't let me hear a word about the rest
Alfred De Vigny
#16. 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
#17. I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
Robert Browning
#19. Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
Josemaria Escriva
#20. 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
#21. Whenever a word 'nigga' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ?
and the correct answer is Not really.
Auliq A
#22. Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan
#23. The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used too often; it's something special, and it's what makes stars. It's luck, and basically, it's genes.
Shirley Eaton
#24. Like a word on a page that you've printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you've lost something, even if you're not sure what it is.
Sarah Dessen
#25. Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
Carl Sandburg
#27. Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.
Charlaine Harris
#28. Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
J.L. Austin
#29. Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
Gottfried Leibniz
#30. I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Jessye Norman
#31. But no one said a word, because people hardly ever mention the very things that occur right in front of them.
Mary Ann D'Alto
#32. Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is it right to attract Wombats?
Will Cuppy
#33. A word could cause a riot, ink could spell a man's death, and the Sidhe knew those weapons like the backs of their hands. Oh yes, they knew.
Stefan Bachmann
#34. I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life.
Sarah Wayne Callies
#35. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.
Alexander McCall Smith
#36. You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.
Eckhart Tolle
#38. Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
Ziggy Marley
#39. A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are
Heather Brewer
#40. [N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.
Will Durant
#41. Pandora. Zeus sends her off to marry Epimetheus, a not especially bright man she's never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar. Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar. Naturally, she opens the jar.
Liane Moriarty
#42. He hugs me. That's all he does. He hugs me tightly without a word, yet I can feel everything he's saying.
Colleen Hoover
#43. I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.
Sarah Ruhl
#44. Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word.
Robin Hobb
#45. Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere ... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.
David Rockefeller
#46. Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian ... and I couldn't understand a word he said.
Paulo Costanzo
#47. What's the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
Tony Hsieh
#48. It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Muriel Spark
#49. Someone knocked on the door. "Come in!" Barabas called. The door swung open and Derek stuck his head in. "Hey, do you have any duct tape?" He saw me, stepped back, and closed the door without a word. Well. "Coward," Barabas said, loud enough for Derek to hear.
Ilona Andrews
#50. A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
Edward Coke
#51. Understanding is a word that I cherish. Understanding is what helps us to love before we judge. Understanding helps us to know more of ourselves and do the same to others.
D'Andre Lampkin
#52. In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR ... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
John Steinbeck
#53. KEVIN: And now a word from our sponsors. Lauren?
LAUREN: Thank, Kev. Can I call you Kev?
KEVIN: Haha. No Lauren, by no means.
Joseph Fink
#54. Fashion
a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Charles Churchill
#55. One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
Charles Horton Cooley
#56. Pluto is about 40 AUs from us, the heart of the Oort cloud about fifty thousand. In a word, it is remote. But
Bill Bryson
#57. I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.
John Henry Mackay
#58. I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.
Huston Smith
#59. I've always loved you." A shudder worked through him, and he pulled her closer. "I've always wanted you. They don't have a word for how much I need you. Everything good I am, everything good I've ever done ... it's all you. You make me a king. Without you, I'm just another psychotic thug.
Kit Rocha
#60. Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
Douglas Adams
#61. To know only part of the story is to know only part of the truth, a part of the whole, a part of a word, a part of yourself.
Riana Rain
#62. Love is a word, to which each of us have to give our own defination.
Anupama Garg
#64. I had never been allowed to invite friends on my birthday, and nor was I on this one. I was sullen and surly, I ate the cake without a word ...
Karl Ove Knausgard
#65. The only prerequisites for a writer are a word processor and thick skin.
Mark Bell
#66. Coincidence, Jim, is just a word superstitious people use to describe complex events that in truth are the mathematically inevitable consequences of a primary cause. - Michael quoting Mr. Spock
Dean Koontz
#67. Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.
George R R Martin
#68. The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus
#69. Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
Gary Smalley
#70. Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
Vernon Howard
#71. Inner healing involves moving from darkness to the light. "Light" is a word that has different meanings yet is generally understood as love and understanding. Love nurtures the emotional body; understanding fills the voids created by pain.
Deepak Chopra
#72. I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.
Julie Taymor
#73. The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism ... have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#74. I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#75. I have no gospel to preach to the self-righteous, no, not a word of it. Jesus Christ himself came not to call the righteous, and I am not going to do what He did not do.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#76. I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough.
Louise Hay
#77. In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.
Paul Claudel
#78. In the secret pocket, she often kept a small
pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.
Lemony Snicket
#79. The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
Willa Cather
#80. I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.
Terry Tempest Williams
#81. 'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide
#82. If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is poontang.
Adam Baldwin
#83. The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
Harold Pinter
#84. I pointed, still unable to utter a word. Tim looked down at the spectacle behind the shed, his face swiftly draining of color. He gripped my arm with a clammy hand. And then he did something I'd been waiting half my life to see: he dropped into a dead swoon at my feet.
Rosie Genova
#85. I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.
Susan Oakey-Baker
#86. The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It's what I am. And when I'm clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
Byron Katie
#87. I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.
Viv Albertine
#88. Were you listening to a word I said '
'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
Jasper Fforde
#89. The word emptiness comes a cross as a word that means dealing with a large void or insecurity within. When the opposite is true. Being in touch with emptiness means being in touch with your inner existence.
Matthew Donnelly
#90. Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Alan Rickman
#91. Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
Christopher Hitchens
#92. She has known all the time that I cared for her
though I never said a word of my love to her
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#93. Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
Mario Puzo
#94. You're absolved," I tell him.
He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.
So I put it in his language. "You're free.
Hannah Moskowitz
#95. So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.
Robert Scheer
#96. For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.
The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret ...
It is a word ... the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.
Dean Koontz
#97. I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.
Giada De Laurentiis
#98. I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in your life that you've probably confused me with them all.
Renata Adler
#99. If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.
Tom Felton
#100. I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
Ian Rush
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