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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The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
John Barth 
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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
Robert Cormier
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This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.
Holly Johnson
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The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.
Margaret Smith
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I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.
Chita Rivera
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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.
Herbert Croly
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Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
Shelby Foote
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
John Guare
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