Word Quotes

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty ... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

I think the negro is included in the word 'men' used in the Declaration of Independence.

I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.