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.
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.
Freedom without limits is just a word.
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed 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.
That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
Widow. The word consumes itself.
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.