Word Quotes

In all correspondence, it would be more convenient to use the word "Persia" instead of "Iran," as otherwise dangerous mistakes may easily occur through the similarity of Iran and Iraq....Formal correspondence with the Persian Government should of course be conducted in the form they like.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

I've thought about every single word on this album for two years; I'd think about a tweet for 20 seconds. My album's gonna go out to, what, 10 million people, but a tweet could go out to a billion. The maths doesn't work out. I'll die on the hill of my records, but I won't die on the hill of my tweets. It's better to say good things less than to say average things more.

I thought we were fighting, but it seems I was 'gaslighting' you. I didn't know that it had its own word.

I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

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.

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

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.