We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'
I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.
But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Have fun and play as many word games as possible.
The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.
Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word without subjectivity.
So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word.
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.
A sitcom. I hate that word.
Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.
The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.
The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.
Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception.
I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word 'diva' and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn't afraid to show it.
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
I'm not saying the N word anymore.
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think - I don't think, I know - that 95 percent of the people who I know who weren't born into success who have become successful and done things that are different and made a lot of money and had a lot of excitement in their life are people who never hear the word 'no.'
If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.
I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'
