Quotes with by-word

Quotes 361 till 380 of 406.

  • Bryan Brown We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Bob Ehrlich We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Brigid Brophy We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bobby Farrelly We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Adam Sandler Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Boyd Rice Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Gail Hamilton Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
    Gail Hamilton
    American writer (1833 - 1896)
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  • Brian P. Cleary When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Anne Rice When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Italo Calvino When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Antonin Artaud 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
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • F. B. Meyer When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
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  • John F. Kennedy When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and one represents opportunity.
    Indianapolis, 12-04-1959
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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