Top Word Quotes
Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
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I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
Ron Silver 
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Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.
Scott Wolf
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Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
Peter Shaffer
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Patrick Swayze
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I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
Peter Shaffer
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott
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One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir
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