1903 Word Quotes for You to Enjoy

Folks, I mean to keep my word. And if I don't, I'll give you my address and some rope. That's real accountability. Stephen Fincher

You Word Accountability Address Folks Some Give Real Mean Rope Keep

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. Stephen Fry

Love Word Five Eight Full Tones

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back. Stephen Graham

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When I didn't retain the world title after my first win, which no one's ever done, I was gutted and made my driver take me home straight away. We travelled through the night, and I didn't say a word all the way from Sheffield to South Queensferry. Stephen Hendry

Home Me World Win Word Made First Way Say Through Take Retain Driver Sheffield South Done After Which Title Straight Travelled Away Ever Night

I have a thing for Baltimore: the word itself, the place - I don't know where it comes from; it's just a weird city. I have a song called 'Baltimore,' but I'm not from there. I've driven through there a lot. We've played a couple of shows there, but it's not a big market. Some good bands come from there, though. Animal Collective and Beach House. Stephen Malkmus

Good Animal Song Word Collective Big Market Though City Some Beach Through Driven Weird Come Know House Couple Lot Baltimore Itself Bands Just Where Place Shows Thing Played

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car. Stephen Merchant

Funny Saying Me You Word Car Wife Become Stage Say Out Detach Would Would-Be Find About Objective Seems More Abstract New Like New Car Sort Talking Because Person Reason Keep Keep Talking Thing Buying Set

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile. Steve Carell

Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you. Steve Case

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance. Steve Erickson

Memory Word Reading Distance Evoke Constantly Instance Part Sonic Editor Sound Been Author Hitting Process Ponder Clue Pause Then Chooses Chosen Now Now And Then Exquisitely Bell Button Image Filmmaker

In any other context, 'icing' is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus - a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee's raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime. Steve Rushin

Great Wonderful Cake Word Bonus Other Top Oath Deity Results Instance Exciting Merely Another Context Proverbial His Referee Hand Wonderful Thing Any Hockey Icing Swearing Downtime Right Thing Raising Right Hand

I think 'genius' is an overused word. Steven Wilson

Genius Word Think Overused

It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling. Steven Wright

Words Sometimes Word Joke First Feeling Few Seconds Possible Gut Gut Feeling Ten Within Does However Very Five Get Maybe Rhythm Wording Interesting Then Really Across Help Thing Needed

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.' Studs Terkel

Hope Good Day You Word Tomorrow Nice Other Hopefully Pretty Pretty Good Vocabulary More Along Perhaps Well How Doing Than Any Going Often Use Things

In Islam, the word of the Prophet is final. No true Muslim can disown these verses or say that they would rewrite the offensive verses of the Koran. If they do, then they would have to run for their lives. Subramanian Swamy

Word Islam Final Say Muslim Run Would Prophet True Koran Verses Offensive Rewrite Then Lives

I think, generally speaking as a player, when I hear the word 'scout,' it's usually, 'The Seattle Storm are playing the L.A. Sparks tomorrow; the assistant coaches are scouting the L.A. Sparks.' And then they come to us and give a scouting report on the players and the team. Sue Bird

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. Sufjan Stevens

Music Musicians Culture World Word Language Mysteries Think Folk Folk Music Entire Like Understand Answer Becomes Itself Trying Often Just Movement Process Packaged Asked Grunge

I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle. Sung Hi Lee

Love Word Big Like Scrabble Just Games Homebody

Poverty is just a word. I mean, how do you dismantle capitalism? It's through small actions. It's through breaking down poverty as a lived experience of not enough food, of your health not being good. So those are things that we can actually work on without ever having to call a politician. Sunil Yapa

Work Health Good Food You Capitalism Experience Word Poverty Politician Down Enough Those Having Small Through Call Without How Just Being Breaking Mean Dismantle Your Actions Lived Ever Actually Things

There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.' Susan Orlean

I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word. Susan Wiggs

Life Love People Writing Word Fall Rich Enjoy Books Way Though Triumphs Emotionally Wrong Wrong Word Perhaps Contemporary Equally Deal Always Tragedies Historical Loved Explore Novels

Youthquake' wasn't an entirely predictable choice for Oxford's Word of 2017. It hasn't been on the lips of an entire nation, nor is it new. But it amply fulfilled the criteria Oxford requires for selection. Susie Dent

Word Nation Criteria Entire Entirely Selection New Been Nor Lips Oxford Predictable Choice Fulfilled Requires

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