Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

What's another word for Thesaurus?
Steven Wright

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
John Adams

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Henry Ford

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin Luther

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman

A word to the wise is infuriating.
Hunter S. Thompson

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift