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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire
Life Spirit Word
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov
Credit Word Wrong
Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
Word
Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.
Jon Postel
Corporate Fans Football Trying Word
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
David Mamet
Word
I’ve always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
Camryn Manheim
Thought Word
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
J. Irwin Miller
Sense Word
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
April Winchell
Children Christmas Holidays Lonely Love Parents Turkey Word
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
Shimon Peres
Judgment Man Negative Nothing Parents Pressure Thought Word
People keep coming up to me and asking, ‘How does it feel to be banned for life?’ Banned for life. I wasn’t banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.
George Steinbrenner
Agreement Life People Word
I don’t stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
Brad Paisley
Word
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o’clock the next morning I was up writing again.
Abraham Pais
Bed Night Word Writing
Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.
Eddie Van Halen
Music People Popular Word Work
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi
Dependence Excitement Love Old Word
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
Difference Right Word
I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.
John Henry Mackay
Books People Want Word
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it’s just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Henrik Ibsen
Home Life May Will Word
It’s hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word ‘farm’ or the word ‘rural.’
Jim Hightower
Disaster President Speech Word
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative – and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Jeffrey Bernard
Conservative Word
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.
Jerry Seinfeld
End God Word
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens
Home Name Spirit Word
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Alan Rickman
Word
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
Harrison Ford
Performance School Word
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Annie Proulx
Balance Brevity Play Word Work
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Imagination Word
Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don’t mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don’t know whether it’s a new thing, but it’s certainly a current thing, in that it doesn’t seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert
Argument Country Facts Opinion Perception Word
Avoid sarcasm. Don’t insist on the last word.
Ford Frick
Sarcasm Word
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller
Word
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self Vices Virtue Word
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian
Time Word
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.
Willie Sutton
Word
We’re thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we’re looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.
Mike Curb
Excellence Future Music Word
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
Alan Perlis
Living Obvious Word
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire Belloc
Soul Tea Word
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan Perlis
English Programming Word
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity’s most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida
Books Humanity Information Reason Technology Word
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
Peace Word Words
I don’t know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.
Danny Aiello
Hell Mother Word
I want to block some common misunderstandings about “understanding”: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word “understanding.”
John Searle
Fancy Want Word
Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
Morton Hunt
Love Word
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God’s system.
Gerrit Smith
God Republican Word
Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
Anita Hill
Life Will Word
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
Sarah Bernhardt
Actor Anger Being Feeling Living Sense Will Word
I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.
Kenneth Branagh
Cinema Film Want Will Word
For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
Herman Hesse
Childhood Happiness Hearing Sound Word
I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he’s also an ‘amateur’ in the pure sense of the word.
John Sexton
Example Love Sense Word
Do not use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.”
Henrik Ibsen
Word
When I think about my new CD, the word “joy” comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.
George Duke
Creativity Earth Hope Mind Spirit Will Word
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari
Dance Word
Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Andy Rooney
Meaning Old Word
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