Quotes with by-word

Quotes 61 till 80 of 406.

  • Bob Considine Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Barbara Stanwyck Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
    Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Carve every word before you let it fall.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anita Hill Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Voltaire Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Leonard Cohen 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
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
    "Q&A with Carlos Ghosn" published in CNN website on December 7, 2006.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Henry Miller Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Fowles Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
    John Fowles
    English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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  • Anna Akhmatova Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Ernest Hemingway 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.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Steve Jobs Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Bill Burr Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Pat Riley Discipline is not a nasty word.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Harold S. Geneen Do you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Berenice Abbott Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
    Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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