Quotes About Word

One of the frustrations of the Republicans is that they have been mostly unsuccessful in equating the word Clinton with Mafia, which, to them, seems so head-smackingly obvious.

Ive never had to change a word in a Grantchester script. Thats very unusual for me.

Everybody has the prerogative for their own career in this business, and I firmly believe that to this day. But if you and I give each other our word - call me corny - I think you have an obligation to uphold that.

'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading.

The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic.

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it.

Oh, for the pre-Twitter days, when it took something more than a word fart by a president who never opens a book to turn the world upside down.

The word remember is not a "memory" word, but a "promise" word

Just as the word and its absence of enjoyment are central in the society of prohibition, the image and its illusion of present enjoyment are central in the society of enjoyment. This shift in primacy from the word to the image corresponds, in the terms of psychoanalysis, to a change in emphasis from the symbolic order to the imaginary. This means, most obviously, that images have more of an effect on us today than words, that we are increasingly dealing with images rather than words.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

You are inviting disaster and... what's the word? Something about cats. Jeeves replies, Cataclysms, sir?

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

Tea, pa! said Charlotte, starting at the word like the old war-horse who hears the bugle; and we got down to it.