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

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Graham Greene

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Graham Greene

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
Patty Duke

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Dick Cavett

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
John Dryden

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
Buffalo Bill

Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
Johnny Carson

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
Jeanette Winterson

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

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Friedrich Schiller

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Walter Scott

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

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

I hate the word wholesome.
Julie Andrews