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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
Written by Dave Barry
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Written by Calvin Trillin
I put the words down and push them a bit.
Written by Evelyn Waugh
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Written by John Fowles
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.
Written by George Orwell
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.
Written by Gerald R. Ford
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Written by John Boyle O'Reilly
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Written by Arthur Helps
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.
Written by John F. Kennedy
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Written by Unknown
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Written by Robert Frost
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Written by Bertrand Russell
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Written by Eugene V. Debs
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.'
Written by Roy Blount, Jr.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Written by Rudyard Kipling
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Written by Charles Simic
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.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Written by Sydney J. Harris
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.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Written by Samuel Butler
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Written by Steven Wright
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Written by Dave Barry
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Written by Steven Wright
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.
Written by Dan Quayle
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Written by Dan Quayle
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.
Written by Dan Quayle
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.
Written by William Bernbach
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.
Written by Leo Burnett
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
Written by William Bernbach
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.
Written by David Ogilvy

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