I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.

In the end, all we need to remember is Slavisa has promoted a club from the Championship to the Premier League and has managed sides at the highest level of football. In other words, Slavisa is exactly the head coach we need.

I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.

One shouldn't get carried away by styling, as it can be a double-edged sword. The person should have it in him or her to carry it off.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.

I hate the word wholesome.

Funny how words in one language get used in another language. For example, 'scotch' in Russian is tape and 'pampers' means diapers.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

It means so much to be a part of bringing James Baldwin's words to life.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your favorite band and yelling out your favorite songs and to say the words along with them.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word 'accessible.'

I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.

Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything needs to be hyped to get noticed. It means that some of our greatest words are losing their power.