The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.
The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.
I used to psyche myself out. Only, back then, we didn't know the word 'psyche.'
You power through it word by word, line by line.
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
I love a blouse that's dumb. I love to use the word 'dumb.' It's not knowing, and the word 'blouse' is so out of fashion that I love it - 'a blouse that's dumb.'
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real.
They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.