Word Quotes - page 2

People talk about 'my career,' but 'career' is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt very privileged to be paid for what I love doing. (Barbara Stanwyck)
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. View quote
Pliny the Elder
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. View quote
Robert Benchley
A word after a word after a word is power. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Word - that invisible dagger. View quote
Emil Cioran
What's another word for Thesaurus? View quote
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. (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. View quote
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! (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
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