The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran.
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.