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.
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.