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But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film. Terri Windling

Me Word Stronger Written Written Word Always Than Really Film

For the critic, the word 'best' is like a grenade without a pin: Toss it around too freely, and you're likely to get your hand blown off. Terry Teachout

Best You Word Too Critic Toss Freely Like Likely Around Without Pin Hand Off Get Blown Grenade Your

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. Thelma Ritter

Word Invented Nobody Polite Ever

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. Theophile Gautier

Word Made Poet Well Maker Exist Literally Anything Which Means

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. Thomas Bulfinch

Man Word Young Admitted Bearing He Knight Particularly Arms Boy Privilege After Which Young Man Meant Originally Servant Applied

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all. Thomas Frank

Politics Freedom Rights Liberty Cause Word Few Conviction More Leaders Noblest Annoying Obviously Up Than Patent Few Things Human Owns Banks Gains Them Capital Capital Gains Stand Stand Up Standing Standing Up Utter Actually Right Things

I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't want 'musical theater' to be a dismissive term. I want it to be something that people can be proud of, that people can say, 'Look at the possibilities.' Thomas Kail

People Word Musical Say Broadway Musical Theater Possibilities Something Term Look Make Proud Want Theater Connotation

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done. Thomas Lynch

Me Word Language Important Sense Market Intimate Entirely Poems More Write Part Voluntary Suppose Most Were Sublime Gets Done Them Ignored Satisfying Assigned

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? Thomas Mann

World Word Thought Changed Magic Vehicle Been Anything Ever Save

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. Thomas Mann

Love Progress Word Tool Spirit Reverence

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. Thomas Mann

Beautiful Word Beautiful Word Begets Deed

There were moments in 'Malala,' I felt very moved by the storytelling, and 'pleased' would be the wrong word, but the music could be part of what moved me: that I was trying to contribute to something that was meaningful outside the realm of creative work but just more in terms of the world. Thomas Newman

Work Music Me Creative World Word Pleased Would Would-Be Something More Could Outside Part Wrong Wrong Word Terms Felt Were Very Contribute Trying Just Moved Storytelling Meaningful Realm Moments Creative Work

'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.' Thomas Pynchon

Word Recluse Journalists Like Talk Reporters Meaning Code

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven. Thomas R. Insel

Sometimes Word Reciprocal Unlike Circuit About Direction Fact Misleading Know Most Talk Proven Brain Lot End Begin Where In Fact Information Electrical Connections Flow

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace. Thurston Moore

War Nature Peace People Word Someone Mentality Deluded Come Terms Were Versus Surrounded Trying Being Inhumane Using

I never really consider myself an awkward person, but once I got into stand-up, I kept hearing that word. The only thing I can trace it back to is that my mom had a similar sensibility. She always made people uncomfortable. Tig Notaro

Myself Mom People Word Made Consider Back Once Similar Only Uncomfortable Never Had Trace She Always Got Hearing Person The Only Thing Sensibility Really Thing Awkward Kept

I respect people. For me to say 'hate' was a bad word, and I didn't mean to use it. Tim Hardaway

Me Respect Hate People Word Say Bad Mean Use

For whatever reason, luck and word of mouth - my comedy career couldn't have started better. I went to Edinburgh, selling out this 300-seater just because I got the right place, right time, right venue, right buzz, right reviews early on. Tim Minchin

Time Better Comedy Word Whatever Mouth Luck Right Place Right Time Out Venue Because Edinburgh Got Reviews Selling Just Just Because Place Word-Of-Mouth Reason Right Early Started Career Buzz

I take President Obama at his word that he is a Christian and was born here in America. Now, it's time that we focus on the real issues facing this country. Tim Walberg

Time Word Focus Country Christian President President Obama Obama Born Facing Take He Real Issues His Real Issues America Now Here

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds. Timothy Noah

Commitment Word Will Leader Say Favors Some Federal Counted Federalism He Particular Foreign Kurdish Kurds Friend Listens Whenever Anyone Wants Autonomy Depth Measure Who

If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves. Timothy Noah

I guess I would use one word to describe myself: determined. Timothy Weah

Myself Word Guess Would One Word Determined Use Describe

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to. Todd Rundgren

Myself Me Word Strict Painting Too State Rules Adhere Kind High Record Some Having Concept Verb Audience Making Stages Title Confound Really Noun Keep Chose Why Early Set

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Tokugawa Ieyasu

Life Patience Strong Word Manly Those Understand Meaning Meaning Of Who

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s. Tom Brokaw

Gay Strong Word Feeling National Own Sense Later Liberation Strong Feeling My Own Attraction Got Truest Movement Really

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