Word Quotes - page 3

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. (Amy Tan)
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
Mary McCarthy
I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."
John Searle
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. Cummings
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
Peter Shaffer
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire Belloc
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand Russell
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
Richard Brautigan
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." (Henrik Ibsen)
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
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
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. (Swami Vivekananda)
I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. Why would I be scared of a faggot?
Morgan Freeman
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent van Gogh
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.
Ariel Sharon
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace