Word Quotes

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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word. — Walker Evans
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make… — Ansel Adams
My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize. — Ansel Adams
Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word. — John of Salisbury
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I… — Gloria Steinem
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'. — Thomas Pynchon
When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook. — Edward Abbey
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. — Edward Abbey
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. — Edward Abbey
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it. — Edward Abbey
Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'. — Edward Abbey
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word. — Edward Abbey
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis… — Julian Barnes
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide… — Douglas Adams
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me) — Eddy Arnold
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration… — Thomas Jefferson
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called… — Thomas Paine
The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which… — Thomas Paine
Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment… — Richard Avedon
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then… — Terry Pratchett
Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading… — Terry Pratchett
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word… — John Marshall
Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The… — Elliott Smith

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