#word

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#i #myself #use #word #worry

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. ↗

— Ben Elton

#i wish #never #ok #perhaps #silly

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#asked #been #before #both #brotherhood

I take sounds and change them into words. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i #into #sounds #take #them

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#am #any #art #ask #aware

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#cut #dreams #either #swords #words

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#bandied #became #believe #element #evident

Give me a sword fight any day. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#day #fight #give #give me #me

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#events #here #neither #nor #officer