You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
George Whitefield

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Ralph Ellison

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison

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

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
William Shatner

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

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

Failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
Siobhan Fahey

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene V. Debs

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.
Peter Singer

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.
Floyd Abrams

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

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

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Lascelles Abercrombie

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
Alfred Marshall

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
Twyla Tharp