Every Word Quotes

406 Every Word quotes by 337 unique authors

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not… — George Armitage Miller
In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and… — Tobias Wolff
Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he… — William Shakespeare
In English every word can be verbed. — Alan Perlis
When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take,… — Boris Becker
... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with… — Marcus Aurelius
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far… — Eric Hoffer
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work… — Marshall McLuhan
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen,… — Alexander Pope
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely… — Neil Gaiman
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you… — Geoffrey Chaucer
Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you. — David Letterman
I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him… — Steve Jobs
Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all… — John Muir
Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly… — Jawaharlal Nehru
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the… — John Dryden
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is… — Graham Greene
If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise. — Beth Ditto
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to… — Ken Follett
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. — Werner Heisenberg
We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every… — Jennifer Love Hewitt
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on… — Vanilla Ice

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337 authors contributed a total of 406 Every Word Quotes, led by these top contributors: