Quotes of: Word Keyword

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

William James

@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

Walter Kirn

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

William Labov

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

William Safire

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk, Jr.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Wislawa Szymborska

Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

William Shakespeare

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...

Yasunari Kawabata

People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Douglas MacArthur

I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.

Armando Iannucci

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Albert Schweitzer

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

Frank Luntz

I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.

Jerry Robinson

I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me.

Linda Ronstadt

'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.

Madeleine M. Kunin

I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.

Pauline Gedge

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Salman Rushdie

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Thomas Aquinas