The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
I don't say any word that I don't approve.
No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.
If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
Compromise is an honorable word.
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.
If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No. '
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.
Word of mouth is very powerful.
Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
To live. . . in any sense of the word. . . is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
I don't believe in the word 'inspiration', you just have to do it.
If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.
Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.
For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with fonts, size, margins - the look of words on a page. The way something looks or sounds is also what it means.
'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.