Word Means Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels… — Red Adair
Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success… — Denzel Washington
But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that… — Herbie Mann
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. — James Bryce
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books… — Henry Mackenzie
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that… — George Leigh Mallory
The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow. — Marian Anderson
I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It… — Vincent Van Gogh
Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No… — Robert Bringhurst
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding… — Brian P. Cleary
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest… — Ambrose Bierce
Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means. — Karl Lagerfeld
The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word… — Ray Lewis
I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember,… — Gerhard Richter
To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and… — Cass Gilbert
Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it… — Thomas Frank
Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in… — Sarah Dunant
The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means. — Cassandra Clare
egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it… — Kurt Vonnegut

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