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Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
— Joseph Jarman
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
— Joseph Joubert
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.
— Temple Grandin
Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.
— Emily Giffin
"Pop" was a dirty word for a really long time and it feels like that's not the case anymore.
— Lizzy Plapinger
Happy was a word for sorority girls and clowns, and those were two distinctly fucked-up groups of people.
— Emma Straub
The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
— Wendell Berry
To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth
— William Brade
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.
— Johnny Depp
You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.
— Keke Palmer
Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
And what is love but a four-letter word for trouble?
— Elizabeth Cunningham
The Dark is a word for the ignorant. The people hare are Gifted. Different powers, different abilities. But Gifted. Like you.
— Anthony Ryan
There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, to walk against the wind for pleasure.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Sincerity in personal advertisements is a code word for commitment, used by women to screen out men seeking casual sex without any commitment.
— David M. Buss
We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our shock. That day we learnt a new word - war.
— P.J. Whittlesea
if a word doesn't work for you anymore, then drop it and replace it with one that does work.
— Eckhart Tolle
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
— Karen Armstrong
In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one.
— Peter Straub
Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don't last a day in the real word. No one's a lady anymore. Why do you think we get our claws polished?
— Crystal Woods
Till the end of my life, I shall never canvas for a vote. I shall not even expect a word of praise from any quarter.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
For the critic, the word 'best' is like a grenade without a pin: Toss it around too freely, and you're likely to get your hand blown off.
— Terry Teachout
We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
— Fady Joudah
For God has not only created us from nothing, but also granted us by the grace of the Word to live a life according to God.
— Athanasius Of Alexandria
We would be a few years younger,if every day we meditated for five minutes on the meanings of the word innocence.
— Alexandra Vasiliu
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[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.
— Will Durant
We didn't need a special word for interactivity in the same way that we don't (yet) need a special word for people with only one head.
— Douglas Adams
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.
— Veronique Vienne
The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
— Miranda Richardson
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
— Theodore L. Cuyler
The "word of the Lord" is designed to reshape your purposes, putting you in a position for Him to do through you what you cannot do on your own.
— Priscilla Shirer
Men in power always seem to get involved in sex scandals, but women don't even have a word for 'male bimbo.' Except maybe 'senator.
— Elayne Boosler
People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?
— Cassandra Clare
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
— Golda Meir
If is a word for fools.
— George R R Martin
No team is complete without a good technician, and the word for an incomplete team is usually fatality.
— Mira Grant
It didn't matter anyway ... he wasn't made for peace, he couldn't believe in it. Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.
— Graham Greene
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
— Frank Herbert
Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.
— Armistead Maupin
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
— Florence Nightingale
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear.
— T. Rafael Cimino
A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
— John Calvin
Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.
— H. Rider Haggard
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
— Margaret Atwood
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
— E.B. White
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
— David Levithan
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
— Ben Elton
To get people to eat well don't say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them.
— Ellie Krieger
It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
— Ornette Coleman
Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want.
— Alex Himelfarb
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
— Woodrow Wilson
The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.
— Cassandra Clare
Author' is just a fancy word for Schizophrenic people with good writing skills and cash.
— Testy McTesterson
New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.
— Robert Frost
Music is love searching for a word.
— Sidney Lanier
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
— Marina Keegan
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
— William Faulkner
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
— Martin Luther
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
— Stephen King
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
— Diane Wakoski
There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
— E. Lockhart