Quotes with word-coining

Quotes 281 till 300 of 407.

  • Robert Benchley The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • O. S. Hawkins The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
    O. S. Hawkins
     
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  • Milan Kundera The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • John Ruskin The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • August Strindberg The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • George Santayana The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Marian Anderson The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Tennessee Williams The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Eugene Debs The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
    Eugene Debs
     
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  • David Ogilvy The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Lee Iacocca The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Carl Hiaasen The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Amy Hempel The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
    Source: Rick Moody (2007) 284
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Frederic Raphael The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • Bob Edwards The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Bob Graham The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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