Top 100 Just One Word Quotes
#1. There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.
Edward Hirsch
#2. To All That Work So Hard To Enrich Lives And Help Make A Better Humanity,
I Have Just One Word To You ... NAMASTE!
Timothy Pina
#3. Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.
Rajneesh
#4. If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?
Mike Gayle
#5. In a field. With the moon.
And the dark. And the dirt.
With your mouth. And just one word:
god god god.
Daphne Gottlieb
#6. Live your life by just one word and that is reciprocity.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live!
Tennessee Williams
#8. I just want to say one word to you-just one word ... "plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.
Buck Henry
#9. Just one word, infused with naked desperation; half prayer, half enchantment. It felt like a freezing charm on her soul making her his prisoner, yet setting her free all at once.
Genevieve Dewey
#10. You are loved and cherished. You have nothing to fear. There is nothing you can do wrong. If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run this way: You are loved. And if I had to boil it down further, to just one word, it would (of course) be, simply: Love.
Eben Alexander
#11. It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
Damien Hirst
#12. I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.
Tyler Hoechlin
#13. Taking a shaky breath, I spoke. "Well, recently, I learned how much my words affect people, even if it's just one word.
Darcy Ridge
#14. Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.
L.M. Montgomery
#15. What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word - 'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.
Ayn Rand
#16. All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.
Mo Willems
#17. If I'd spoken, even just one word, I would have never been able to hold back what I feel for you. You would have run.
Melissa Haag
#18. I believe that you can change a life with just one word.
Onew
#19. Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. Regardless of who they are, whether they are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, Afghan women often describe the difference between men and women in just one word: freedom.
Jenny Nordberg
#21. Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
William Styron
#22. Hi" she whispers. It's just one word but my heart is already racing.
Tahereh Mafi
#23. Trust is just another five letter word, one that comes before not,
Ellen Hopkins
#24. Just Keep Writing! Who cares if it's a Saturday, or if you left your laptop at home, or if you're around people? Just write one word, one line, jot down one idea. No matter how little you write, it's movement in the right direction. Forward. Toward completion.
Tammy Ferebee
#25. Good. Or instead, what if I just told you that I love you?" Payton gazed
into his eyes. "What would you say, J. D. Jameson, if I told you that?"
J.D. smiled. He touched his forehead to Payton's, closed his eyes, and
answered her with one word.
"Finally.
Julie James
#26. Shakespeare used the word 'flush' to indicate plenty of money. Well, just remember there was only one Shakespeare, and he was the only one that had a right to use that word in that sense . You'll never be a Shakespeare, there will never be such another - Nature exhausted herself in producing him.
Joseph Devlin
#27. 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.
Theodore Roosevelt
#28. But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me."
As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.
Suzanne Collins
#29. Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.
Liane Merciel
#30. I stood in the middle of the room flipping and Pusher was plucking at the guitar, just one string, and I went up to him and said, 'Man don't pluck those dirty notes at ME,' and like he just got up without a word and left. [Mardou]
Jack Kerouac
#31. Tell me what you need."
"You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.
Maya Banks
#32. Lord God, You are the Hound of heaven who hunts the lost down and captures us with grace. Today, make me the hound of now who hunts for glory and captures joy with just that one word: Thanks.
Ann Voskamp
#33. We drove in silence for a while.
"Can I have a gun?" I asked.
"No!"
"Just a little one? For my handbag? It'll give me some street cred with the client."
"No! No! No!"
His clenched fists pounded the steering wheel with each word.
- heller 1
J.D. Nixon
#34. Having solidarity is important and having conviction and sticking with it and also consistency. You can't just have one good record, or a couple of good singles, you have to continue making good music to be considered to be a great band. Having some degree of integrity, that's it in one word.
Ryan Jarman
#35. I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'
James Tate
#36. a kiss is just a kiss till its with the one you love.
a hug is just a hug till its with the one your thinking of.
a dream is just a dream till you make it come true.
and love is just a word till its priven to you..
Heather Reed
#37. Looking backwards, I look at my resume and I look at the things I've accomplished, but quite honestly there's just that word, 'Mother', I just saw it on the paper, and I that's the one that means the most to me.
Michele Bachmann
#38. But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why ... didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?
Jodi Picoult
#39. Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.
Xinran
#40. There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.
Christopher Hitchens
#41. Peter, you're not crazy," William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.
Torey L. Hayden
#42. At these moments I need my reading easy and quick; I need to turn the pages without knowing it. I don't have the bandwidth to wonder about the underlying meaning of the exact word chosen to phrase how one turned around or analyze just why an object was described in a certain
Lauren Leto
#43. Hi," he says.
Just hearing that one word makes me feel as though I have gone back in time, to a part of my life when things made sense, when the world was fair.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#44. 'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.
Dev Hynes
#45. Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.
Eric Drooker
#46. I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
Maximilian Schell
#47. There are times you feel the world has turned its back on you, you feel so alone, no one to turn to. There is one person who's willing to listen to you and He's always with you. Just say the word and He'll answer every question you have.
Euginia Herlihy
#48. Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
Andrew Vachss
#49. By the way, Doc Edwards said. How's that book coming along?
Oh, it's coming along.
Fine. What's it about?
Just what I'm writing down: one word after another.
Good.
Richard Brautigan
#50. Conceited is just another word for self-confident. And sometimes, the only confidence one can depend on is his own.
Suzannah Daniels
#51. And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.
Suzanne Collins
#52. If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.
Soren Kierkegaard
#53. I find that the most difficult thing in prose narrative is linking one thing with the other. The link might just be a sentence, or even a word. It sums up what has gone before and prepares one for what is to come.
V.S. Naipaul
#54. Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.
William Holden
#55. When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard Dawkins
#56. Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only way they know how to communicate.
Morgan Parker
#57. In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vast & unimpeded.
Sharon Salzberg
#58. I know what I heard, Ms. Polanski," he said firmly, those lovely lips of his thinning with discontent. "You won't admit it, but I heard you think the word vampire." "Maybe that's because you're just like one, Detective. Because as of right now, you're sucking the life out of me.
Dakota Cassidy
#59. No one can make you dwell on the past.
Control your thoughts and actions! Make your own decisions! Just because someone keeps bringing up your past doesn't mean you have to accept it --- you are not obligated to accommodate their recollections of you.
Michelle Word Hollis
#60. Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#61. No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government ... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.
Paul Craig Roberts
#62. Love; n.; (luhv), The emotion of something unexplainable. A word so powerful, it's hard to find meaning in any dictionary. Just be glad you found it. (eg: The world shall love someday)
No One
#63. I'll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.
Tony Wilson
#64. I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul
J.G. Ballard
#65. The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
David Steinberg
#66. And one of our vocabulary words was nonconformist. I just dug that word. I heard the explanation, the definition, and I felt like I had just learned about a new hero in a kick-ass Marvel comic book.
Nick Offerman
#67. Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
Bill Peterson
#68. The final product in a play is not just the written word. It's the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it's only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse.
Jesse Kellerman
#69. There is no need to rush in life. Just with one word at a time, your sweet life history will be written boldly in capitals and highlighted for easy access. Be sure you are passing the test of patience!
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. One more word that may be useful in the heat of passion: dong. Dong sounds like someone very important has just arrived.
Joe Dunthorne
#71. You can't choose the person who really sees you - the person who knows what you're feeling without you saying a word, the person who can make you laugh and cry and everything in between just by looking at you. The one you can't imagine being lucky enough to have, or unlucky enough to lose.
Kami Garcia
#72. The difference can be summed up in one word: authorization. I don't need authorization to get in. It's the word that instantly transforms me from the World's Most Wanted Hacker to one of the Most Wanted Security Experts in the world. Just like magic.
Kevin D. Mitnick
#73. Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered ... just one kind word to another person.
Fred Rogers
#74. I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark
Bennett Madison
#75. Just that one word - sound - sent a strong answering pulse through her body. His tongue curled around syllables that weren't there, like a promise. This is what you'll get, if you just let me hear.
Charlotte Stein
#76. I didn't just wake up one morning and think, "I'm a boy!" It sort of crept up on me and tapped me on the shoulder a few times before I started to pay attention I began to think that the word "girl" didn't quite fit me. It was like a shoe that was too small -- it pinched me.
Cat Clarke
#77. The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel De Montaigne
#78. The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.
James Gleick
#79. Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. "I was on one of my fruitarian diets," he explained. "I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.' Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book
Steve Jobs
#81. Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.
David B. Haight
#82. We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
L.M. Montgomery
#83. Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which side of the "half" fence you are on: Does your life include a lie or just one big if? There is nothing wrong with either to be honest, but it will make your Sundays longer.
Corey Taylor
#84. Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'.
Richard Bach
#85. There were people who'd steal money from people. Fair enough. That was just theft. But there were people who, with one easy word, would steal the humanity from people. That was something else.
Terry Pratchett
#86. So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
Kurt Loder
#87. What bothers me is that health professionals give fancy names to conditions or learning difficulties that will irritate the patients; like OCD not being in alphabetical order, putting an 'S' in 'lisp,' and making dyslexia a word that no one can spell. It's just mean.
Suzanne Wright
#88. A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.
Gus Van Sant
#89. Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
Octavia Butler
#90. That's the thing about saying "sorry" or "excuse me" in this city. No one ever does. Or when we do apologize, we don't actually say it clearly. We just whisper the outline of excuse me or form the word sorry with our mouth, as if we expect people to lip-read.
Susane Colasanti
#91. There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.
Daryn Kagan
#92. One very important thing he learned tonight ... Colt Michaels had indeed noticed him, just like he'd noticed Colt. As it turned out, they had watched each other for years, but neither had said a word.
Kindle Alexander
#93. I've had enough of stories and lies; enough of silent scribbling. Enough of gears and engines. Enough of daydreams and false futures. Enough of virgins and dynamos.
One word from you is all I want, she said. Just speak one word, and we'll begin.
Enough of wasting time.
Dexter Palmer
#94. Please. It's one word, but the way I say it means so much more. Please don't say anything. Please don't look at me. Please don't hurt me. Please just stay away. Please.
Carey Heywood
#95. The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just rich. The word "healthy" doesn't exist in French. We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.
Alain Ducasse
#97. I hope one day it won't matter who you're in love with. Gender is just a word. LOVE is beautiful. labels are for assholes. don't ever stop being yourselves.
Jeffree Star
#98. But the lawyer he jumps on the table and yells, and says: "Gentlemen - gentlemen! Hear me just a word - just a single word - if you please!
There's one way yet - let's go and dig up the corpse and look.
Mark Twain
#99. I know what it feels like for your soul to be diminished by the way your loved one is treating you . . . maybe it's a push, a shove, or a nasty word that stays with you. The scars might not be visible, but they run just as deep.
Jennifer Lopez
#100. Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike.
Stephenie Meyer
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