Top 670 Word Quotes

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

One of the things that’s interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

I think denial’s fascinating. It’s a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

If a movie can take you to the place that I’ve been to, and the audience can experience what I’ve experienced, then I feel – success might not be the right word, but I’m satisfied that I did my job.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

The Creation Museum isn’t really a museum at all. It’s an argument. It’s not even an argument. It’s the ammunition for an argument. It is the Word made into bullets. An armory of righteous revisionism.

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer – that word means to most people ultimate death – I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

I’m a man of my word.

Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we’ve read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth – by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

‘Villain’ is such a harsh word.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

The script of ‘Shogun’ was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn’t take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

The word ‘universe’ is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Every creature is a word of God.

I used to be afraid to use the word ‘pop’ to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there’s some fun.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

I don’t play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word ‘jazz’ only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that’s fine.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury’s believing their word over a police officer’s are slim to none.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

When people say the word ‘bromance,’ it drives me nuts, because guys can’t be friends so they call it a ‘bromance’ as this macho way out of it.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

I’m a little old-school in that I think there’s some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession. If we start slanging the word ‘chef’ on anybody and everybody who cooks, it takes away a lot.

‘Elusive’ is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi’s style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then – blink – he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘r’, except at the beginning of a word.

When you are mute, you become a good listener – it’s all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.

A word after a word after a word is power.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

The biggest word in football, and it’s a dirty word – no one likes to use it – is accountability.

I picked up the Puerto Rican accent from my father, and my sister picked up my mother’s very clear, concise, and slow Mexican-Spanish. So, when she does speak, she speaks with diction. She pronounces every word.

Eminem is just incredible. That’s the word that comes to mind: ‘incredible.’

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you’ve got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.

I don’t want to hear the word ‘can’t.’

I feel the word ‘privacy’ is under threat, majorly. We are forgetting that a celebrity is also a human being.

The written word is everything.

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

Everyone, it’s okay to say the word ‘bitcoin’ and acknowledge that it is the actual platform that is driving this innovation that we’re all building on. It’s also okay to say ‘the bitcoin blockchain,’ or ‘the blockchain,’ if you’re afraid that people will think you’re weird.

The fashion world doesn’t know the word ‘stop,’ so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: writing picture books is an art – the art of word choice.

The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way.

My mother’s openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I’m open to everything. And I don’t have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences – and as my context changes, so does what I believe.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

When you say the word ‘undisputed,’ what do you think of? You think of something that is untouchable, undeniable. Myself, Bobby Fish, and Kyle O’Reilly are all of those things.