I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. Rob Delaney
People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother. Gail Devers
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants. Annie Dillard
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. Sandra Cisneros
'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say. Raymond Arroyo
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.C. S. Lewis
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston churchill
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.Mahatma Gandhi
Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term 'social media' didn't do us any favors. It's not really media. It's more like the telephone, less like the TV. Amy Jo Martin
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. Ernest Hemingway
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.C. S. Lewis
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. Ralph Ellison
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. Bret Easton Ellis
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves. Rob Bell