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Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word. -- Robert Littell
I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word. -- Griffin Dunne
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. -- Mark Twain
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival. -- Russel Honore
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. -- Catherine Drinker Bowen
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. -- Steve Martin
It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people. -- Nicholas Haslam
Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play. -- Lance Reddick
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning. -- Robert Littell
I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy. -- Eva Braun
Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards. -- Uma Thurman
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. -- Mark Twain
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked. -- Anna Deavere Smith
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe. -- Margaret Haddix
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. -- Joseph Conrad
Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health. -- Sally Schneider
When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word. -- Richard Simmons
Madame Bovary' advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one. -- Kathryn Harrison
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless. -- Bruce Springsteen
Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off. -- Christopher Walken
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria. -- Kathleen Battle
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. -- Peter Singer
I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. -- Neil Gaiman
I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists. -- Mila Kunis
I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I'd do, I don't know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously. -- Chris Pine
Use the right word, not its second cousin. -- Mark Twain
Style means the right word. The rest matters little. -- Jules Renard
The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now. -- Charlie Daniels
Aren't you, uh..." Clary searched for the right word. "Reproducing? -- Cassandra Clare
Think not that your word and yours alone must be right. -- Sophocles
A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence. -- David Caruso
Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works. -- Oliver Stone
Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one. -- Charles E. McKenzie
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. -- Neil Gaiman
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word. -- Edward Abbey
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. -- Rita Dove
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. -- Mark Twain
A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages. -- Thomas Carlyle
I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.' -- Beyonce Knowles
I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one. -- A. E. Housman
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action. -- George Eliot
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. -- Joseph Conrad
I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it. -- Sylvia Day
Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word. -- Joyce Meyer
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain. -- Mark Twain
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
About 83.3% of the word BRIGHT consists of the word RIGHT, so RIGHT living guarantees a BRIGHT future -- Constance Chuks Friday
If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right. -- Ricky Williams
In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word. -- Confucius
I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now. -- Peter Pace
One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses? -- Moby
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy. -- Auguste Comte
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy. -- Auguste Comte
The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware. -- Ellen Page
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable. -- Sophocles
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. -- Jose Marti
Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path. -- Nancy Duarte
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. -- Mark Twain
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. -- Dorothy Parker
It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to...the Word of God. -- Jack W. Hayford
Awkward Black Girl' is spreading to all the right people because of word of mouth and social networks. I'm so grateful. -- Issa Rae
I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote. -- Steven Wright
The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot. -- Chris Lynch
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Dharma is a sanskrit word. It simply means that which is right, that which is correct, that which is the divine law. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. -- James Thurber
The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon. -- Peter Marshall
You need to follow your own heart in light of God's word and do what you feel is right and good for you. -- Joel Osteen
God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it. -- W. A. Criswell
Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning. -- Robert Littell
Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God's Word and in His love for you. -- Joseph Prince
It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years. -- Chath Piersath
In California, 50 women protested the impending war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word peace. Right idea, wrong president. -- Jay Leno
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done. -- Peter Orner
Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard. -- John F. Kennedy
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning." -- Robert Littell
Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now. -- Jordin Sparks
I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word. -- Plato
But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. -- Terry Pratchett
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. -- Brigid Brophy
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he's right, we are supposed to be madly in love. -- Suzanne Collins
Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers. -- Terry Pratchett
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. -- Thomas Jefferson
Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word. -- Henry Clay Trumbull
Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha! -- Hilton Als
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit. -- Michael Douglas
Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today. -- Jimmy Page
Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die. -- Steve Jobs
Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go. -- Joan Didion
And God help them both, if it hadn't been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid. -- J.R. Ward
I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word? -- Eric Bachmann
I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure. -- Deborah Kaplan
I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image. -- Chairil Anwar
I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled. -- Josh Billings
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe -- Margaret Haddix
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God. -- Tryon Edwards
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did. -- Peter Gay
Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it. -- Penn Jillette
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.... -- Mark Twain
Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these were people who in their times were criticized as infidels. -- Christine Jennings
Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously. -- Lois McMaster Bujold

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