I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

The only power you have is the word no.

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.