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I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation. Lou Barlow
Conversation School Word High High School Never Know Heard Graduated Barely Means
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions. Louis Sachar
Welcome Word Every Final Mine Write Make Editor End In The End Decisions Novel Suggestions
Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be. Louis Theroux
Word Fraught See Something Could Celebrity Quite Aspire Certainly Why
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. Louise Erdrich
Death Word Discouraged Could Well Talking Got Get Grew Traveled
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise. Louise Gluck
Best Me Simple Word Language Liberate Timing Setting Suited Way Range Enterprise Seemed Poem Could Through Surprising Subtleties Pacing Meaning Means Page Full
Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say. Luis Fonsi
Saying Cancer Word Tough Say Even
Put 'Luis Suarez' into an Internet search engine, and up comes the word 'racist.' It's a stain that is there for ever. And it is one that I feel I do not deserve. Luis Suarez
Word Internet Put Feel Up Stain Engine Search Search Engine Deserve Ever
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. Lukas Foss
Word Nineteenth Nineteenth Century More Inspiration Idea Began Replace Arts Century Grandiose
I wouldn't let anyone say a bad word about Cheryl Cole. Luke Pasqualino
Word Say Bad About Anyone
Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain. Lyall Watson
Home Wonderful Inspire Word Smell New Makes Stimulating Brain Up Aches Literally Nostalgic Which Us Means Serve Things
I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much. Lydia Davis
Natural Word Too Much Too Way Kind Follow Intuitively Pretty Like Without Questioning Them Much Interests Natural Way
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. Lydia M. Child
Home Heart Word Angel Blessed Human Heart Thither Carry Wings Perfect Glimpse Most Opens Heaven Human Which Helps
I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work. Lyle Lovett
Work Love Myself You Word Say Cringe Something Never Feels Like Sort Hear Getting Really
If you have a business website, make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage... then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the Internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising. Lynda Resnick
Website You Business Key Try Word Internet Important New Things Those Beat Merchandising Drivers New Concentrate Most Until Advertising Make Audience Inexpensive Very Hit Optimization Often The Most Important Banner Then Paid Search Compared Right Things
When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on. Lynn Coady
Relationship Man Woman Word Move On Response No Chance Tells Only Take Long-Term Him His Committed Move Formal Chance
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. Lytton Strachey
Word Few Every Latin Vocabulary Exceptions French Very Straight
My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions. Madeline Kahn
Good Mother Word Sense Religions Good Sense Various She Bohemian Searcher
When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word. Maeve Binchy
Me Word Parents Sister Think Joan Marvellous Could Glad Take She Arrived Been Friend Rabbit Swap Asked If I Could Her
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained. Major Taylor
Success Great Courage Simple Word Strict Will Sense Enough Otherwise Rules Adhere Carried Out Physical Morale Physical Courage Seem Could Attained Lead Greater Surely Than May Them Require
If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.' Mal Peet
Try Word Way Would Slowly Only Write Qualification Without Were Which Use Describe
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics. Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Word Long Band Jazz Bass Bass Player Lyrics Spoken Spoken Word Sophisticated Very Vibe Sensibilities Much Miles Player
I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment. Mandy Moore
Great People Not Perfect Word Think Consider Say Compliment People Say Outlook Perfect Am Model Role Role Model Just Depends Anything Flattering Your
5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why. Manoj Bhargava
Word Focus Energy Say No Idea Drink Idea Like Why
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life. Marcel Duchamp
Life Art Me Word Military Frame Everyone Those Something Civilian Term Make Makes Making Were Heard Very Artistic Craftsmen Artists Canvas Prefer Much Interests Who Now Things
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality. Marcel Duchamp
Game Reality Word Sense Static Drawing Visual Since Geometric Chess Moves Plastic Mechanical Thing
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other. Marcel Duchamp
Man Creative Word Creation Nice Believe Other He Like Well Very Any Artist Ordinary Social Meaning Meaning Of Function Away Fundamentally Shy
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