Quotes with word-coining

Quotes 201 till 220 of 407.

  • Franz Kafka Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Alexander Pope Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Ciardi Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Bill Walsh Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Joan Didion Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Caroline Knapp Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Graham Greene Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Suzanne Lafollette Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word ''human.''
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  • Sidney Lanier Music is Love in search of a word.
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Bruce Forsyth My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Ben Huh New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
    Aint It Cool News interview
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Khaled Hosseini Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Angelus Silesius Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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