Word Like Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

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
Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, â€˜I love… — Robert D. Hare
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and… — Mark Twain
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a… — Gary Saul Morson
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think… — Geoffrey Rush
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism. — Michel Houellebecq
What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things... — Tracey Emin
What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York City and it… — Todd Phillips
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. — Ralph Ellison
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir
I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful… — Sonya Hartnett
By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would… — Milan Kundera
What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your… — Patricia A. McKillip
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit… — Janette Rallison
She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word… — Paulo Coelho
Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God."… — Tanya Huff
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. — Albert Einstein
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what… — Neil Gaiman
It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word,… — Karen Marie Moning

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