Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Tommy Lasorda

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Henrik Ibsen

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

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Henrik Ibsen

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Henrik Ibsen

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

I hate the word wholesome.
Julie Andrews

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

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Herbert Spencer

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
Geddy Lee

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
John Stuart Mill

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

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
Billy Sunday

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby Bowden

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

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
Gustave Flaubert

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

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