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That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
Morrissey
You
Problem
Word
Consider
Sexual
Rather
Never
Because
Person
Celibate
Just
The Problem With
Moment
Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
Morton Hunt
Love
You
Love Is
Word
Else
Though
Find
See
Finger
Someplace
Someplace Else
Only
Put
Where
Plainly
Your
My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
Mos Def
Word
Before
Say
Volumes
Speaks
Presence
God's word is always effective and produces whatever it expresses. My words, on the contrary, cannot create anything; I can only change what already is into something else.
Mother Angelica
God
Change
Words
Word
Whatever
Else
On The Contrary
Something
Something Else
Only
Always
Effective
Contrary
Anything
Cannot
Create
Produces
Expresses
I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence.
Muriel Rukeyser
Experience
Witness
Old
Word
Giving
Evidence
Seeing
Seems
Like
Knowing
Well
Reader
Another
Audience
Personal
Personal Experience
Listener
Which
Inadequate
Should
Act
Use
Suggest
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
Murray Walker
Word
Backwards
Long
Fact
Very
In Fact
Formula
Formula One
Love is just a word that we've chosen to use to describe something that we can't fully explain. I mean, it's like, as a culture, we've just all agreed on using the term, but I think people get so caught up in the word that they don't allow themselves the privilege to live out what it actually might be.
Musiq Soulchild
Love
Culture
Love Is
People
Word
Live
Think
Out
Something
Allow
Term
Like
Caught
Up
Privilege
Get
Just
Explain
Mean
Might
Themselves
Use
Fully
Using
Describe
Agreed
Chosen
Actually
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
N. T. Wright
People
Words
Word
Whatever
Other
Resurrection
Never
He
Simply
Glorified
Metaphor
Been
Died
Often
Heaven
Just
In Other Words
Mean
Realized
Means
Jesus
When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
Nancy Gibbs
You
Speak
Word
Every
Those
Celebrity
Choose
Media
Dissected
I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.
Nancy Grace
Family
Me
Marriage
Word
Seriously
Entertain
Would
Able
Brought
Give
Shake
Give Me
Fact
Without
Years
Up
Being
In Fact
Really
Nearly
Actually
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
Nancy Kress
Words
Word
Building
Before
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Right Word
Right Words
Paragraph
Exact
Phrase
Phrases
Scene
Individual
Generate
Genes
French
Building Blocks
Blocks
Blossom
Fiction
Sentence
Use
Your
Even
Right
Position
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
Nancy Kress
Try
Word
Too
Monotonous
Worse
Writers
He
True
She
Becomes
Said
Repeated
Questioned
Repetition
Than
Any
Often
Avoid
Many
Using
Novice
Uttered
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
Nancy Pearcey
Debate
Word
Convictions
Tolerance
Our
Once
Those
Rational
Arena
Rationally
Argue
Subject
Public
Means
Meant
Even
Now
Deepest
Right
I have done a few solo projects that I really enjoyed and would love to have time to do more. Key word here is time!
Nancy Wilson
Love
Time
Key
Word
Few
Projects
Solo
Would
More
Done
Really
Enjoyed
Here
I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
Natalie Dormer
Equality
Word
Sense
About
True
True Sense
Feminist
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
Nathan Myhrvold
People
Old
Word
Few
Software
Latest
Say
Release
Perfect
Stuff
New
Operate
Bugs
Greatest
Always
Got
New One
Versions
New Stuff
Want
Happened
Them
Might
Plane
Old One
Cool
Zero
Defects
Two
Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Best
Writing
Word
Move On
Thinking
Too
Follow
About
Calculated
Another
Crafting
Move
Sentence
Aside
Should
Set
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
Nathaniel Philbrick
Word
Though
Hating
Read
Up
Grew
Even
Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial expressions and tell me exactly what I'm thinking and feeling. We're actually very similar people.
Ndamukong Suh
Saying
Me
People
Word
Language
Feeling
Thinking
Tell
Exactly
Exactly What
Similar
Guy
Facial
He
Read
Without
Cunningham
Very
Coach
Body
Body Language
Expressions
Actually
I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.
Neal Asher
Word
Example
More
Had
Periods
Overused
Trying
Any
Being
They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
Neale Donald Walsch
Better
Word
Will
Believe
Jews
Go
May
Heaven
Use
Certainly
The key to an ideal workplace, in one hyphenated word, is this: self-awareness.
Neil Blumenthal
Key
Word
Self-Awareness
Ideal
Workplace
The word 'hackathon' was born out of 'marathon' for a reason. It's exhausting.
Neil Blumenthal
Word
Out
Born
Exhausting
Reason
Marathon
I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.
Neil Gaiman
Word
Somebody
Own
Right Word
See
My Own
Highest
Stuff
Know
Look
Does
Proud
Am
Get
Regard
Flaws
Who
Whole
Right
What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
God
Religion
People
Word
Spirituality
Say
Would
Would-Be
Find
Came
Closest
After
Really
Stance
Agnostic
Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.
Nelson Peltz
You
Word
Bad
Pronounce
However
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