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Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones. — Ally Condie

But no one said a word, because people hardly ever mention the very things that occur right in front of them. — Mary Ann D'Alto

It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people. — Nicholas Haslam

Dharma is a sanskrit word. It simply means that which is right, that which is correct, that which is the divine law. — Frederick Lenz

( ... ) before they actually admit to the big 'L' word. Love or lust - what's the big, damn deal? You're going to fuck either way, right? — C.M. Stunich

Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead? — Laurie Halse Anderson

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled. — Josh Billings

'Awkward Black Girl' is spreading to all the right people because of word of mouth and social networks. I'm so grateful. — Issa Rae

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy. — Eva Braun

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe. — Margaret Haddix

It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to ... the Word of God. — Jack W. Hayford

If loving the written word is wrong ... I don't want to be right! — Junnita Jackson

Love might not be the right word. I live you in every breath and every heartbeat. — Namrata

Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path. — Nancy Duarte

A werewolf. He said the word like he was learning a foreign language and wanted to get the accent right. — Tielle St. Clare

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain. — Mark Twain

Use the right word, not its second cousin. — Mark Twain

Taylor realized that he had better use the "L" word or this was going to go south pretty far, pretty fast. — Kenneth Eade

I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street. — Neil Gaiman

We may never know when the right word will transform a person's life. — Philip White

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone — Paulo Freire

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. — Jose Marti

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages. — Thomas Carlyle

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done. — Peter Orner

If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity. — Andy Crouch

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language. — Terry Jones

There is no better moment in life than finding the right word. — Gloria Steinem

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today. — Jimmy Page

No sword
Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,
But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word
She shook the world. — Alfred Tennyson

Because he's just so, so," Peter paused looking for the right word, "so French! — Jack Lewis Baillot

Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc. — Andromeda Edison

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now. — Jordin Sparks

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action. — George Eliot

I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now. — Peter Pace

God's word is like a mirror, it constantly allows us to see whether we're on the right track or not. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of ... I guess 'hope' is the right word? — Eric Bachmann

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go. — Joan Didion

Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it. — Anu Garg

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment — George Meredith

Insane was probably the right word, but Clawdeen preferred determined. — Lisi Harrison

among a soft folk obsessed with words, choosing the right word is nearly as important as doing the right thing." The — Brian Staveley

I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote. — Steven Wright

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot. — Chris Lynch

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. — Terry Pratchett

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. — James Thurber

The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment. — Glen McDiarmid

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play. — Lance Reddick

One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable. — Sophocles

He will use the word "love", and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything. — Sue Monk Kidd

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right. — Ricky Williams

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon. — Peter Marshall

Writers are the people who are most awkward with words. Their whole life revolves around one right word. — Saket Suryesh

Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God's Word and in His love for you. — Joseph Prince

Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha! — Hilton Als

Resurrection ... ah, there's a word
(that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it). — Stephen King

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself. — Henry Ward Beecher

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. — Gaston Bachelard

A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence. — David Caruso

To find the right path, we first need to remember why we are on the wrong path. The reason can be put in one word: sin. — Billy Graham

I do not think we have a right to withhold from the world a word or a thought any more than a deed which might help a single soul ... — Emily Dickinson

And God help them both, if it hadn't been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid. — J.R. Ward

You must be more committed to the truth of God's word and what is right than the flaws in our society. — Sunday Adelaja

One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot. — Robin Hobb

She might be a natural-born cynic, but she knew the right word when she heard it. — Kate DiCamillo

I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it. — Sylvia Day

Then Mrs. confiscated my shiny glitter jar. Confiscate is the school word for yanked it right out of my hand. — Barbara Park

Creationists, the right-wing Christians, creationists believe every word Genesis says. I don't even think Phil Collins is a good drummer. — Jimmy Carr

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God. — Tryon Edwards

If it is contrary to the Word of God, it isn't right. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word. — Edward Abbey

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word. — Joyce Meyer

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. — Brigid Brophy

A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment. — Agatha Christie

Sometimes emotions matter more than the right words, and if you overthink every goddamn word it's like suffocating it until all the emotion is gone. — Jewel E. Ann

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. — Steve Martin

The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware. — Ellen Page

The right word said at right time is sacred utterance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Perfection is the absolute right word. And you could never ruin it," she said in a low, calm voice. "Not when it was perfect because of you. — Laura Kaye

There is a pause, while she turns the great pages of her volume of rage, and puts her finger on just the right word. — Hilary Mantel

Style means the right word. The rest matters little. — Jules Renard

For you born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word"
- Catherine Drinker Bowen — Yvonne Finn

Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Did I spell the word "did" right? Of course not! I got my D's mixed up. — Jarod Kintz

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and a lightening bug.
Mark Twain — Nancy Oswald

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word. — Griffin Dunne

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And pretty is not even the right word. She burns. She's a verb. — Max Gladstone

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival. — Russel Honore

Whoever said men
hit harder when women
are around, is right.
Word for word,
we beat the love
out of each other. — Yusef Komunyakaa

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked. — Anna Deavere Smith

When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre. — Aleister Crowley

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. — Dorothy Parker

Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one. — Charles E. McKenzie

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. — Thomas Jefferson

Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. — Neil Gaiman

Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard. — John F. Kennedy

Right, pass the word along: no one is to look like a sock, understand? — Terry Pratchett

Pathetic, huh?" He learned that word
from me.
"Yeah. It's like the opposite of a fish,
right? — Hannah Moskowitz

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning. — Robert Littell