Comeback is a good word, man.
Narcissism is a strong word, but it is narcissistic to expect everybody in a culture to reflect your own image back at you.
I don’t care much for success – it is an alien word to me.
If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
I don’t know much about Americanism, but it’s a damn good word with which to carry an election.
I’m fun with people I know. But at the same time, people also say that I am a little cold, rude, and moody. ‘Moody’ is the word they generally use for me.
I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn’t know what was ahead of me.
The idea of romantic heroes – When you say the word hero,’ it implies it’s someone you look up to. We talk a lot with Bridgerton’ about it being female-centric, but also, what are men looking up to? What am I doing with this icon of masculinity?
Avoid sarcasm. Don’t insist on the last word.
Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever knew who would not join in the mispronounceciation of a word for the sake of camaraderie with her fellows was former State Senator and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
The only power you have is the word no.
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‘freedom’ means than I see much evidence of in America.
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.
Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer.’
Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I hate the fact that people think ‘compromise’ is a dirty word.
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work – our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated – sometimes repelled – by scientific friends’ automatic use of the word ‘mechanism’ for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it.
Sometimes I wish my first word was ‘quote,’ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‘end quote.’
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
Diversity is such an interesting word. I feel like when people hear the word ‘diversity,’ they think that it means only people of color, when in reality, diversity is all-inclusive; it means everyone.
Recognition is a reward in itself. Any form of appreciation, even a small word, is important.
After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.
Consistency is a beautiful word.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.
I’m a total Democrat. I’m anti-Republican. And it’s only fair that you know it… I’m liberal. The L word!
‘Retiring’ – within that word is ‘tiring,’ and I’m not tired. I don’t believe in retirement, really.
The whole ‘sell out’ word to me is such a tired, tired word.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
Sometimes I don’t use the words ‘will’ and ‘want’ in the right way. The German word ‘will’ is the English word ‘want,’ so that’s a little bit of the problem.
I have to say a part of me was a little terrified to be only looked at as Shane from ‘The L Word.’ I was very conscious of doing something that would steer me clear or just steer me in a different direction.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone’s idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience – that we read His Word, we’re obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things – that somehow His blessing means we’re going to be okay.
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
I think ‘No’ is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger… I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.
As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.
I like to weed out the people who aren’t going to enjoy me straight off the bat. If you look at all my specials, I do start more extreme and then, as I get into it, sort of at the three-quarter mark, I normally have a bit of pathos. Is pathos the right word?
Apart from using it to spread the word about my translation company Blue Elephant and to talk to fans, I find social media an extremely powerful forum for charity.
Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn’t just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.
Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.
Censorship is saying: ‘I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.’ But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
