Word Quotes - page 2

What's another word for Thesaurus? (Steven Wright)
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. View quote
Dan Quayle
The word impossible is not French. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. View quote
Wernher von Braun
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. View quote
Alan Perlis
Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. View quote
Winston Churchill
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. (Terry Southern)
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. View quote
James Thurber
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. - Anthem. View quote
Ayn Rand
That is a long word: forever! View quote
Georg Büchner
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. View quote
Alexander Pope
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. View quote
Robert E. Lee
When we speak the word "life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. View quote
Henry Miller
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. (Charles de Gaulle)
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. View quote
John Dryden
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. View quote
Willa Cather
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. View quote
Ernest Hemingway