1895 Word Quotes for You to Enjoy

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. Edward Hirsch

Music Song Word Tribal Other Distinguished One Word Poetry Remembers Always Still Cultures Just Where Literacy Just One Them Many Origins

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day. Edward Klein

Day Book Word Will Every Think Say Hillary Said Stand

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind. Edward McKendree Bounds

God Time Loyalty Prayer Word Pulpit Must Doctrine Same Same Time Hold Which While Mankind Loyal Illustrate

Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each word has its unique place in the peerage of words, and he would not use a word out of place any sooner than he would thrust an ape into a captain's saddle. Edwin Markham

Man Words Word Other Out Would More Had Thrust He Sooner Saddle Perhaps Him Ready Command Condensed Than Any Place Ape Use Captain Unique Each Expression Ever Letters

Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games. Ehud Olmert

Word Nothing Futile Mutual Dictates Accusation Games Useless

We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke - whoever wrote those Gospels - used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common. Elaine Pagels

Together Word Perspective Focus Mark Those Seeing About Similar Talk Wrote Because Gospels Lot Matthew Common Story Them Really Means Use Used Whoever Luke Basic

My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting. Elaine Stritch

Life Wonderful Word Everybody Idea Get Trying Serenity

I played softball at George Washington University, and then I played professionally for the Mid-Michigan Ice. I had a couple of tryouts with the U.S. Olympic Team, but I don't know if I have a word to describe how bad one of the tryouts was. It was the worst tryout in the history of tryouts. It was that bad. Elana Meyers

It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working. Elayne Boosler

Me You Word Baton East Cities East Coast Minneapolis Bother Never Comedian Household Where Working Coast Popular Rouge Imagined

As commissioner, I will attempt to see that no man is judged by the irrational criteria of race, religion, or national origin. And I assure you, I use the word 'man' in the generic sense, for I mean to see that the principle of nondiscrimination becomes a reality for women as well. Eleanor Holmes Norton

Religion You Man Women Reality Word Will National Sense Assure Criteria See Attempt Generic Well Principle Judged Becomes Commissioner Irrational Race Mean Use Origin

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action. Elia Kazan

Word Important Action One Word Make Going Where Really Film

Often, some people dress something up to make it sound scientific, use scientific words, call themselves doctor something-or-other, and then you look them up, and they're trying to make it sound like something it's not. There's this entire field that's adding the word 'quantum' to everything. It doesn't even make sense in that context. Elise Andrew

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One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect. Elizabeth Banks

Me Word Disrespect Divorce Contempt Another Just Which Predictor

The word must is not to be used to princes. Elizabeth I

Word Must Princes Used

I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge. Elizabeth Meriwether

Character You People Writing Words Word Challenge Think Other Hundred Definitely Scene Thrown Put Feel Instinct Around Lot Different Which Mean Communicating Much Different Things Things Tone

My problem with the word 'clean' is that it has become too complicated. It has become too loaded. When I first read the term, it meant natural, unprocessed. Now it doesn't mean that at all. It means diet. It means fad. Ella Woodward

Natural Problem Complicated Word First Become Too Clean Fad Term Read Diet Mean Means Meant Now Loaded

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things. Ellen Barkin

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