Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
I put the words down and push them a bit.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
