People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can’t be attacked.
Be impeccable with your word.
My word is gold, And I make sure everyone gets paid.
The day I write my last word will be the day that I feel free.
I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He’s never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.
Socialism’s not a word that I use. I say ‘social democracy’ because I don’t think the government needs to own all the means of production.
Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you’re unbelievably nervous and you think that you can’t get a word out, you will get the word out.
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
Culture’ and ‘cult’ derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.
I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Honestly, I don’t know the word ‘pressure,’ because football is my job. I always enjoy it.
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
‘Hispanic’ is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. ‘Latino’ is the word we have always used for ourselves.
I don’t understand the word ‘hunk.’
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn’t make sense.
In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.
I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
I don’t even like to use the word relationship. I don’t know what it means.
The word ‘Antichrist’, to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
The one word that makes a good manager – decisiveness.
I’m actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say ‘no’ all the time. ‘No’ is the most powerful word in our business. You’ve got to protect yourself.
Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It’s the core of what I’m about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It’s a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It’s the biggest factor in everything I do.
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified – in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they’ve never realized that the word ‘resurrection’ simply didn’t mean that.
The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.
No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
Throwing money at something doesn’t really create – forgive me that onerous word – art.
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
I hate the word ‘break.’ It’s just a business deal at the end of the day so there’s no such thing as giving a break.
Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history – the academic word for flag making and heraldry.
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
The best advice I ever got – and it’s the best advice I’d give anybody – is just don’t believe the word ‘no.’ Be persistent. Persevere. Keep going. Never, ever, ever give up.
If you don’t like the word ‘religion,’ you can replace it with ‘ideology’ – it’s largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.
If you can’t pronounce a word correctly, just don’t use it.
It’s a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don’t like is predictable.
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don’t even like the word.
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
In ‘W,’ I did not change a word in the script. I have never spoken this much in other series. I just stick to whatever is written. I always carry the script with me and read it before I sleep.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it’s just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
When you use the word ‘filibuster,’ most of us in America – and I count myself among them – envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.
Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing… chanting hymns containing the word ‘Hosanna.’
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use – musically and in every way.
I didn’t choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.
I don’t like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
Yankees don’t understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
I don’t like working with hitmakers. I don’t want hits! You’re not even allowed to say that word around me.
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I’ve been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn’t say I’m sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there.
In most languages, ‘control’ is the first synonym for the word ‘manage.’ Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it’s never easy, because once you’ve mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‘sexy,’ even before I knew what the word was.
Your word is your bond.
Women’s issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word ‘feminism’ back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.
The word ‘aerobics’ came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it Jumping up and down.
