Word Quotes

9067 Word quotes by 4674 unique authors

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home. — Mahmoud Darwish
To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. — Emile M. Cioran
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. — Paul Auster
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement… — Peter Ackroyd
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed… — Victor Hugo
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. — Victor Hugo
That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different… — John Zorn
Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of… — Robert E. Lee
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. — Willa Cather
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in… — Peter Zumthor
I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I… — Helen Keller
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of… — Aung San Suu Kyi
That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet, — LeBron James
I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a… — Robert Mapplethorpe
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them… — Unknown Author
Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play… — William Kurelek
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no… — Alan Lightman
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious… — Boris Yeltsin
Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every… — Grenville Kleiser
[Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are… — John Bunyan
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit… — April Winchell
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism,… — Herbert Croly
Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the." — Mary McCarthy

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