Word Quotes

I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and an essay, and I'd never worked in concert with an orchestra. John Cho

Word Before Drama Never Spoken Spoken Word Between Like Concert Because Essay Done Orchestra Wanted Anything Worked

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God. John Cornwell

I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to. John Darnielle

Wrestlers give their bodies to their work. I don't know if I like the word 'crazy' here. What I would say is there are people who have a different relationship to their bodies than most people. John Darnielle

Work Relationship Crazy People Word Say Would Give Wrestlers Like Know Most Than Different Bodies Who Here

I think, culturally, stories are important, whether it be cinema, whether it be by word of mouth - which I don't even know if we do anymore, as it all seems to be social media. John David Washington

Cinema Word Social Media Important Mouth Think Seems Know Anymore Stories Whether Which Word-Of-Mouth Social Even Media

The written word is everything. John Drinkwater

Word Everything Written Written Word

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. John Drinkwater

Life Word Poet Perfect Selection He Makes His

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. John Dryden

Word Argument Blow Tis

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. John Fowles

Life Man Word Unknown Also Content

I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive. John Gregory Dunne

Myself Word Harp Sharp Like Call Because Sound Short

I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word. John Grisham

Time Word First Before Spend Outlining Write Lot

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. John Hume

Word Language Speechless Would Would-Be English English Language Paisley

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word. John Hurt

Word Ambition Whatever Embarrassed Never Had Still Any Star

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French. John Jeremiah Sullivan

Word Before Fact French Existed Up Curious Essayist English

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince. John Jewel

Word Earthly Prince Gospel

I don't answer the phone or do my email; I don't do anything until I've got the day's writing done. I have a word count for every day: 500 for fiction, 1,000 for non-fiction, and journalism is 1,500. That's a level I can sustain. John Lanchester

Day Every Day Writing Phone Word Every Email Count Journalism Until Non-Fiction Answer Got Done Sustain Fiction Anything Level

We have the word 'Mc' attached to so many things now, like 'McMansions.' It's become part of our vernacular as something on steroids almost, just bigger and bigger. I think, to a degree, studios have fallen prey to that as well. John Lee Hancock

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M. John Lescroart

Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions. John Lithgow

Me Word Picture Least Dictionary American Next

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. John McCarthy

Beautiful Most Beautiful Word Language Liberal Compulsory Between Most Contemporary Forbidden Beautiful Word Difference Whereas English English Language Socialist

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity. John Nelson Darby

Simplicity Word Church Add Ought Bent Those Pretext Restoring Abstain Instructed Well Doing Anything Who Whole

You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers. John Niven

Day You Yourself Word Giving Interviews Press Find Pretty Ten Over Like Know Until Answers Doing Sounds Repeat Questions Same Just Where Much Asking Film Utter Thing Row

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