If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.