Word Quotes - page 4

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. (Alan Perlis)
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
Mark Twain
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Walter Scott
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. (John F. Kennedy)
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
Honoré de Balzac
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
Robert Bresson
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
Christian Lous Lange
Home is the nicest word there is.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
Eric Temple Bell
I don't understand the word 'hunk.'
Goran Visnjic
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.
Benoît Mandelbrot
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras)
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any word.
Andrew Jackson
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
James Thurber