Quotes of: Word Keyword

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

Georges Simenon

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Gore Vidal

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

George Washington

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

Hamish Bowles

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Helen Mirren

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

James MacDonald

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

Jehane Noujaim

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Joseph O'Neill

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

J. B. Priestley

Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.

James Van Pelt

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Jules Renard

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Joanna Scott

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

Drew Barrymore

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

Dick Cavett

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them.

Dick Cheney

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.

Daryl Hall

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

David P. Ingerson

That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.

Dave Keuning

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Denis Lavant

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

Johnny Depp