As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
James Baldwin

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph Addison

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.
Steven Morrissey

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!
Hermann Goering

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
Gottfried Leibniz

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury

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.
Billie Joe Armstrong

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
Johnny Cash

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
Billie Joe Armstrong

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
Russell Simmons

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Ray Charles

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
Nora Roberts

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus

Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
Wayne Brady

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
Alicia Keys

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
George Whitefield