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What's another word for Thesaurus?
Author:
Steven Wright
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Author:
Steven Wright
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.
Author:
Kaavya Viswanathan
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I don't understand the word hunk.
Author:
Goran Visnjic
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Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.
Author:
Robert Vaughan
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I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.
Author:
Mel Torme
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A word to the wise is infuriating.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.
Author:
Cathy Tempelsman
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Author:
Major Taylor
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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.
Author:
Willie Sutton
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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
Author:
William Strunk, Jr.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Author:
Terry Southern
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The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.
Author:
Margaret Smith
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I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
Author:
Ron Silver
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It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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I jokingly refer to the word "gourmet" as the "g" word.
Author:
Arthur Schwartz
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The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.
Author:
Chita Rivera
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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
Author:
Anne Rice
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A word to the wise is enough.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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Widow. The word consumes itself.
Author:
Sylvia Plath
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I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
Author:
Brad Paisley
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When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics.
Author:
Ken Olsen
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Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.
Author:
Denis Norden
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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.
Author:
Steven Morrissey
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
Author:
Steve Martin
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We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.
Author:
Mike Mansfield
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
Author:
David Mamet
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I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
Author:
Gustav Mahler
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
Author:
Charles Lint
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To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Author:
Max Lerner
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The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
Author:
James Lafferty
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
Author:
Vernon Jordan
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And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions.
Author:
David Jones
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
Author:
Randy Johnson
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But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.
Author:
John Jewel
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Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Author:
Henrik Ibsen
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Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Author:
Henrik Ibsen
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Author:
Horace
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A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Author:
Horace
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Carve every word before you let it fall.
Author:
Oliver Holmes, Jr.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
Author:
Robyn Hitchcock
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
Author:
Damien Hirst
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Author:
Warren Harding
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If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
Author:
Johann Hamann
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I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.
Author:
Geri Halliwell
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The motto was "Pax," but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
Author:
Rumer Godden
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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
Author:
Andre Gide
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The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
Author:
Theophile Gautier
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Author:
Charles Gaulle
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As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
Author:
Solomon Gabirol
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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.
Author:
Anna Friel
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I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
Author:
Peter Falk
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
Author:
Omar Epps
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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The word must is not to be used to princes.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Author:
Pliny Elder
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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
Author:
Patty Duke
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The written word is everything.
Author:
John Drinkwater
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Your word is your bond.
Author:
Melvyn Douglas
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All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
Author:
Daisy Donovan
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If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.
Author:
Katie Couric
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
Author:
Billy Connolly
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Mum's the word.
Author:
George Colman
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Word - that invisible dagger.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
Author:
Lewis Carroll
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Author:
Robert Burton
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Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
Author:
Emma Bull
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'Programming' is a four-letter word.
Author:
Craig Bruce
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'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
Author:
David Brower
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The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
Author:
Robert Bresson
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
Author:
Wayne Brady
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
Author:
William Bernbach
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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
Author:
Dave Barry
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
Author:
Sri Aurobindo
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If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.
Author:
Billie Armstrong
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For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
Author:
Aeschylus
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