Top 100 Word Was Quotes
#1. These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability.
Mercedes Lackey
#2. In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.
Roger Scruton
#3. I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.
Tom Wolfe
#4. Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
Paul Simon
#5. In the beginning was the word, and that word was probably misconstrued by someone who then made it into a personal issue and started a fight causing people to be miserable
Ade Bozzay
#6. In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, out of the nothing came the Word and the Word was power. Every utterance of the Word gave form to the Void, starting with beings to utter the Word. There was no Adam, no Eve, and no need. What Man named was.
Thomm Quackenbush
#7. I sat on cushioned otter-skin:
My word was law from Ith to Emain,
And shook at Invar Amargin
The hearts of the world-troubling seamen,
And drove tumult and war away ...
William Butler Yeats
#8. In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.
Mark Skousen
#9. Across the room was a mirror, and deep down in its silver bubble a single word appeared in green fire and that word was: REDRUM.
Stephen King
#10. The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Marshall McLuhan
#11. For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even ... ' The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.
Patrick O'Brian
#12. Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.
Zane Grey
#13. It was clear to the one speaking that each of his words was being allowed to enter into his listener, who sat there quietly, openly, waiting' not a single word was disregarded or met with impatience; Vasudeva attached neither praise nor blame to what he heard but merely listened.
Hermann Hesse
#14. How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
Dejan Stojanovic
#15. I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
Dolly Parton
#16. Patience, thought Milligan, that word was invented by dull buggers who couldn't think quick enough.
Spike Milligan
#17. My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.
Suzanne Collins
#18. When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.
Tracy K. Smith
#19. What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other
Jodi Picoult
#20. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
#21. I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was ... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.
Alan Arkin
#22. No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.
Kristin Hannah
#23. in the magnificence of the order of the spirits and gods, where the word was not associated with worship, but with becoming.
P.W. Child
#24. Today's word was interminable, meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.
Margaret Brownley
#25. But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.
Jodi Picoult
#26. Palace with massive pillars and many courtyards, and his word was law. All the people of Egypt had to toil for him if he so decreed. And sometimes he did.
E.H. Gombrich
#27. Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
James A. Baldwin
#28. The word was out that Royal Barnes was huntin' Kilkenny," somebody commented. "He was kin to the Webers, you know. Half-brother, I think.
Louis L'Amour
#29. Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.
Don McLean
#30. Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch & interpret every sound in the universe.
Toni Morrison
#31. What did it mean to be crazy? She hadn't the slightest idea, because the word was used in a completely anarchic way.
Paulo Coelho
#32. Hedge was enthralled by her symmetry, yet the word was too cool and dry. She was beautiful.
Sean DeLauder
#33. You." The word was spat out at her, full of hatred. "What have you done to me?
Marissa Meyer
#34. My image of "a Communist" was not a Soviet bureaucrat but my friend Leon's father, a cabdriver who came home from work bruised and bloody one day, beaten up by his employer's goons (yes, that word was soon part of my vocabulary) for trying to organize his fellow cabdrivers into a union.
Howard Zinn
#35. It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
Robert Green Ingersoll
#36. I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.
Peter S. Beagle
#37. One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.
Ken Gillespie
#38. In a British University, a final exam question on Business was:
"Define what risk is".
The shortest answer ever at one word was :
"This."
The student handed the essay in and got 100%.
Anonymous
#39. You're a Scott," the Dark said, his lips peeled back in displeasure, as if just saying the word was revolting.
"And you're Irish. I'm so glad we got that settled.
Donna Grant
#40. The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Joshua Chamberlain
#41. He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.
Michael Scott
#42. Where do they come from?" In those days, her every word was gospel truth, and I would have asked anything to keep her talking to me.
"Tears. The first time Oberon left Maeve for her pretty sister, she didn't understand, and she nearly died of sorrow.
Seanan McGuire
#43. how tragic it was that the written word was immortal while people were not,
Katarina Bivald
#44. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" -St. John 1:14-
"I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details" -Einstein-
"It's not who you know, It's 'You Know Who!" -GoldenEagle-
1 St. John 2 Einstein 3 GoldenEagle
#45. They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.
But now I knew that every mad word was true.
Rosamund Hodge
#46. Even if every word was true, and from what you've said I think it is, it doesn't make it any less insensitive.
Jewel E. Ann
#47. You don't have to live in community long to realize that lives which are blessed and instructive are still flawed. The grace of the gospel isn't only that the Word was made flesh in Jesus, but also that the eternal Word is made present in weak and wonderful people.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#48. For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. The word was ours now, and as long as we held on to it, we could control the hurt it inflicted.
Kody Keplinger
#50. In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Peter Tosh
#51. It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.
Fred F. Fielding
#52. Truth is the old way. Truth dates back to the time when your word was your bond, and you didn't need papers in a language you couldn't understand to compel you to act honestly.
Vanora Bennett
#53. Please. The word was disgusting as it came out, rank with misuse, and he felt irritation in the midst of his panic. But it was the panic that drove this train, panic that pushed every retort out of his mind and left him broken and desperate, in front of this man.
Alessandra Torre
#54. The art of writing was independently born in these four regions and I do not think it a coincidence that the advent of the written word was nourished by river water.
Olivia Laing
#55. If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#56. One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.
F.C. Malby
#57. That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary ...
Ford Madox Ford
#58. The difference between finding the right word as opposed to accepting the almost right word was the difference between being struck by lightning and merely watching a lightning display.
Dan Simmons
#59. The second time my world exploded, it was also
because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my
throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could
think about it, or stop it.
The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow?
And the word was: Yes.
Lauren Oliver
#61. Not another word was said for more than an hour. They only walked home together with aching feet and tired hearts.
Markus Zusak
#62. The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver.
Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.
Laini Taylor
#63. Follow me." When about to leave for heaven, He gave them a new word, in which their more intimate and spiritual union with Himself in glory should be expressed. That chosen word was: "Abide in me." It is to be feared that there
Andrew Murray
#64. Izzy had always been raised to believe that "please" was a magic word. She'd been misled. Apparently, the magic word was "dinner.
Tessa Dare
#65. Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'
Steven Wright
#66. Are you guys, like, in love? Brian asked in a girl voice.
Alexis and Jason locked stares because even though everyone had started laughing at Brian's jibe, the word was there, hanging between the two of them, waiting to be grabbed for their personal use.
Lindsay Chamberlin
#67. You Englishmen,' said Herr Wurter. 'You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.
Derek Raymond
#68. Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.
Leslye Walton
#69. You and I certainly had out issues, Cooper. But I never, for a moment, doubted that you could be trusted. My father told me once that your word was good amber. I have no reason to believe otherwise.
Jayne Castle
#70. We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.
Bobby Farrelly
#71. Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#72. The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
Rumer Godden
#73. My child's first word was "more," but and it's all about, "I want." "I'm going to tell you what I want and what I don't want." It's about my desire to express my preferences. And that is really innate.
Sheena Iyengar
#74. ...the Word was with God, and the Word was God. That's where God is from, and knowing that changes everything. And, where am I from? I am from God. ...not easy to believe.
Ken Untener
#75. Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.
Regina Brett
#76. Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.
Rachel Caine
#77. She glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine.
Kristen Callihan
#78. That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.
Anne Perry
#79. He looked natural and unrushed, and had obviously had a lot of experience at either chicanery or skulduggery, depending on which word was better suited for describing officially sanctioned mischief.
Jeff Lindsay
#80. The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
Evel Knievel
#82. His word was granite, the loyalty he gave and demanded unquestionable. Cross him and die. There were no warnings.
Thomas Benigno
#83. Yes." Brett smiled and I cringed at his omission of 'ma'am.' The word was a Southern requirement, a verbal side dish that must accompany every course. It didn't matter if the person addressed was six years old. Or twenty. Or ninety. In the South, we said 'please' and 'thank you,' 'sir,' and 'ma'am.
Alessandra Torre
#85. Again the word was a prayer, incense offered up to a high God through this new and unfathomable darkness
F Scott Fitzgerald
#86. He was very patient, and deeply kind; a bit reserved, but quietly generous. His word was his honor, and his honor was sacred. He was truthful, protective, and profoundly trustworthy. Lily thought he was extraordinary.
Hannah Lowry
#87. He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.
Colin Dexter
#88. My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.
Madonna Ciccone
#89. The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.
Jacob Peterson
#90. Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been given.
Malorie Blackman
#91. All around me, grown-up voices called out, "Amen!" as if the word was a hall pass into Heaven.
Jane Yolen
#92. What's an adventure? Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor fighting dragons with
Neal Stephenson
#93. She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal
Emile Zola
#94. There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
Virginia Woolf
#95. Sure." The word was drawn out, freighted with sarcasm, and Elijah cursed himself for being so green.
Mark Dawson
#96. Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver ... or came closer to being God's will on earth.
Omar N. Bradley
#97. The word that identified what we did not possess was "money," . . . The other word was "votes," so that together "money votes" was "open sesame" to the deep caverns of the American political system.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#98. To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture
a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.
James Hudson Taylor
#99. No phones, no internet and no TV and we manage to make the news in at least three states. What are the odds?"
Alex looked at him deadpan and said "Well, I do make really good buns. Word was bound to spread.
Theresa Shaver
#100. Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy
Christopher Moore
