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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras

Great, Silence, Words

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Mother, Once

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson

Good, Nothing, Silence

A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood

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

Love, Full, Five

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.
Willie Nelson

Trying, Here, Week

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Dan Quayle

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Elizabeth I

Father, Used, Alive

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
Scott Adams

Words, Hand, Common

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will

Political, Sacrifice, Means

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
Billy Corgan

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.
Sri Aurobindo

Human, Creative, Her

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'
Hugh Jackman

Dance, Anyone, Next

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
Bill Maher

Experience, Learning, Thought

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.
Daniel Radcliffe

Country, Wrong, Proud

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle

Since, Quite, Taken

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.
Cynthia Nixon

Gay, Fact, Often

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Marie de France

Love, Truth, Loyalty

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.
Drew Barrymore

Love, Work, Family

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.
Kelly Clarkson

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
Martha Plimpton

Equality, American, Anyone

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
Candace Cameron Bure

Marriage, God, Selfish

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
George Lucas

Writing, Able, Write

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
Daniel Radcliffe

Society, Find, Modern

I hate the word wholesome.
Julie Andrews

Hate, Wholesome

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'
Julie Andrews

Home, Child, Uttered

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Johnson

Mind, Poor, Spell

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
Chinua Achebe

Her, Against, Artist

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
Jackie Chan

Crazy, Together, Perfect

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
Pat Robertson

Big, Tolerance, Europe

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