Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
Anna Akhmatova

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

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera

When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud

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

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Willa Cather

Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W. Somerset Maugham

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.
Liam Gallagher

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
Duke Ellington

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

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

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.
Joe Strummer

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Wendell Willkie

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Joshua Chamberlain

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
George Berkeley

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
Silvio Berlusconi

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Daniel J. Boorstin