Top 100 A Single Word Quotes
#1. A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it. A single word or gesture, a tone of voice can conjure up so many remembrances.
William Landay
#2. People do judge books by their covers; it's human nature. They react to the way you look before they hear a single word that comes out of your mouth.
Jeff Garvin
#3. He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.
Gail Carriger
#4. How is it that some people go through hell trying to get close to you, while you haven't the haziest notion and don't even give them a thought when two weeks go by and you haven't so much as exchanged a single word between you? Did he have any idea? Should I let him know?
Andre Aciman
#6. In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman
#7. One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'
Takeda Nobushige
#8. It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you.
Alice Hoffman
#9. There is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?
Victor Hugo
#10. If you take a single word ... and make it your own on a day-to-day basis, I hope it's choose. Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.
Sue Thoele
#11. Across the room was a mirror, and deep down in its silver bubble a single word appeared in green fire and that word was: REDRUM.
Stephen King
#12. I've always treasured empathy as the particular privilege of the invisible, the observers who are shy precisely because they sense so much--because it is overwhelming to say even a single word when you're sensitive to every last flicker of nuance in the room.
Leslie Jamison
#13. You're the only one who can leave me completely breathless even when there's nothing but silence between us. It's 'like I can lay beside you and we not say a single word and still I have the best time.
Lisa Brooks
#14. It was clear to the one speaking that each of his words was being allowed to enter into his listener, who sat there quietly, openly, waiting' not a single word was disregarded or met with impatience; Vasudeva attached neither praise nor blame to what he heard but merely listened.
Hermann Hesse
#15. I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.
Michael Mayer
#16. The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
Ludwig Von Mises
#17. I typed in a single word: Vampre. Google asked, 'Did you mean vampire?' I said, 'Yes.
The Harvard Lampoon
#18. Downfall? How ominous you make it sound. There is no downfall being plotted. Merely a question being asked. (Callie)
Aye, and empires have been splintered apart over the mere utterance of a single word. (Sin)
Kinley MacGregor
#19. A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#20. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
Moliere
#22. No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words
Brennan Manning
#23. Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one's hands are fast enough.
Robert Bringhurst
#24. It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.
Guy Delisle
#25. Yes, she probably thought he was a few displays short of an exhibition, seeing as he had yet to utter a single word.
Liz Bower
#26. I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.
Robin Marantz Henig
#27. As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH.
Erik Larson
#28. I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.
Augusten Burroughs
#29. A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.
Rebecca McNutt
#30. He knew that when he'd let Cheyenne lead him away, he'd lost his chance to find out the name of the girl who, without a single word spoken to him, had stolen his heart.
M. Leighton
#31. If I ever see a man in a rug again, I'm not going to believe a single word he says! A man who lies about having hair will lie about anything.
Joanne Fluke
#32. In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.
I. A. Richards
#33. Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Daniel Dennett
#34. I would be speaking even with my silence, because at the moment I am nothing but a single word.
Franz Kafka
#35. The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
Bernadette Roberts
#36. No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether or not you get a single word on paper, the sun will rise, the earth will spin, the universe will expand. Writing is forever and always a choice - your choice.
Beth Mende Conny
#37. If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
Johann Georg Hamann
#38. Effective preaching must be biblical preaching, whether it is the exposition of a single word in the Bible, a text, or a chapter. The Word is what the Spirit uses.
Billy Graham
#39. Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
Gaston Bachelard
#40. Seconds ebb and wane. She's not afraid of her voice anymore, but she's not entirely sure she trusts it. She's seen the damage caused with a single word. Right now, each one is a weapon, a conduit of war, and she won't just throw them out there all willy-nilly.
Laura Kreitzer
#41. At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."
Lyndon B. Johnson
#42. The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word:
REDRUM
Stephen King
#43. I didn't know what love felt like, but what I felt for her was indescribable with a single word. It was more powerful. It was all consuming. "London, what we are can't be explained with a word, only experienced.
Nashoda Rose
#44. You can't change a single word. What is tensile strength? It is that all the components are working together. I repeat: You can't change a single word. The best short stories are built on this premise.
Norman Mailer
#45. I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.
Anita Shreve
#46. Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
Teresa Of Avila
#47. Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.
Rivera Sun
#48. Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word ...
SACRIFICE.
Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy ...
pretty much everything but complaining how much they sacrifice.
Brian K. Vaughan
#49. The first step in gaining the upper hand is always to seize the moral high ground, and to be able to do this with no more than a single word is nothing short of genius. I
Alan Bradley
#50. Breathtaking, adj.
Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
David Levithan
#51. If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
Brad Leithauser
#52. How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
Oscar Wilde
#53. Authors," he murmured with a grin. "You all think your work is flawless, and anyone who tries to change a single word is an idiot."
"And editors consider themselves the most intelligent people they know," Amanda shot back.
Lisa Kleypas
#54. No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.
Ibn Hazm
#55. There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
Justin Townes Earle
#56. In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.
Thomas Szasz
#57. There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is "sympathy" - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.
Timothy Keller
#58. Truth is always an interior and inexplicable contact. My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it. My heart has emptied itself of every desire and been reduced to its own final or primary beat.
Clarice Lispector
#59. Funny how a single word can change everything in your life."
"It is not funny at all. Steel is power. Money is power. But of all the things in all the worlds, words are power.
Pierce Brown
#60. It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me
Witold Gombrowicz
#61. Could it be found, a single word for today and yesterday, with their jumble of indistinguishable, all too complicated colors, a word to embrace all the tomorrows? (O 1989: 229)
O Chonghui
#62. I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.
Ben Gibbard
#63. I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
So that I could break the rule
I learnt all the words and broke them up
To make a single word:
Homeland..
Mahmoud Darwish
#64. Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.
Pamela Morris
#65. The years have come and gone without a single word from you. Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes.
Alice Walker
#66. His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.
Ann Aguirre
#67. At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.
Nicole Krauss
#68. "Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
Andre Gide
#69. The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.
Daniel H. Pink
#70. History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#71. The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.
John Green
#73. I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.
Chuck Palahniuk
#74. Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.
Dada Bhagwan
#75. Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'
Honore De Balzac
#76. He found he was now incapable of understanding a single word of the volumes he consulted; his very eyes stopped reading, and it seemed as if his mind, gorged with literature and art, refused to absorb any more.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#77. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed" (Mat 8:3). To one who had lain in the grave four days He cried, "Lazarus, come forth," and the dead came forth. The stormy wind and the angry waves were hushed at a single word from Him. A legion of demons could not resist His authoritative command.
Arthur W. Pink
#78. I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Jeffery Deaver
#79. The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver.
Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.
Laini Taylor
#81. Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That's before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.
Nelson Searcy
#83. Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
Zubin Mehta
#85. If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
Dejan Stojanovic
#86. She had driven in by a single word a little golden nail, the sharp intention of which he signally felt. He
Henry James
#87. Like your mouth has the gift of reading and I'm your favorite book. Find your favorite page in the soft spot between my legs and read it carefully. Fluently. Vividly. Don't you dare leave a single word untouched. And I swear my ending will be so good.
Rupi Kaur
#88. The ancients say that one note of a song is twenty times more powerful than a single word, and that only in song can truth be clearly perceived, for though words can harbor lies, music cannot abide them.
Nicole Evelina
#89. Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.
Pat Conroy
#90. The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.
Thomas Cleary
#91. If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.
Robert Higgs
#92. In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.
Jonathan Clements
#93. Perhaps my gift to you will be as simple as a single word, whispered into your ear by one of your servants as you lie on your deathbed, a word that solves a final mystery and makes it easy for you to slip quietly into the dark.
Dexter Palmer
#94. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
#95. Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
Don Roff
#96. she and Ben chattered away to each other in the language of mothers with their toddlers; the two understood every word exchanged, while the rest of the world just listened, smiled, and didn't understand a single word of the happy gibberish.
William R. Forstchen
#97. Why, if ever again... you dare to mention a single word... about my mother... I shall send you flying downstairs!" "What's
Anton Chekhov
#98. Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Leo Tolstoy
#99. She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal
Emile Zola
#100. Strange how the sound of a single word can hurt more than a ruined shoulder, cut deeper than a bloody gash.
Amy Engel
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