The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
Tennessee Williams

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Marshall McLuhan

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
William Bernbach

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Truman Capote

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Golda Meir

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
Dean Koontz

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz

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

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Dan Quayle

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky