One Sentence Sayings

#1. I would prefer to have gum on my face than own up to the fact that I accidentally got gum on my face. And of course one sentence out of every ten that comes from my mouth is probably not one hundred percent true.

Alicia Thompson

#2. In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

Jason Schwartzman

#3. If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

Tony Lema

#4. There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story.

Peter Landesman

#5. Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

Eben Alexander

#6. Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#7. Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

Mickey Rooney

#8. No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Nicole Krauss

#9. There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

Christopher Pike

#10. The writers of religious scriptures and texts would have done humanity a grand service if they would have used just one sentence, in one of the pages out of the thousands, to support respectful and peaceful disagreement.

Steve Maraboli

#11. How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. This is the end, Fuka-Eri informed him in a whisper. One sentence, as always. Time stopped, and the world ended. The earth ground slowly to a halt, and all sound and light vanished.

Haruki Murakami

#13. I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

Garth Ennis

#14. My heart is a schizophrenic. One sentence is about how I hate him. The next is about how much I love him. It goes on like that, back and forth, pacing.

Lesley Anne Cowan

#15. The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

Dalai Lama

#16. A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun.

Paul Reiche III

#17. All energy contains consciousness. That one sentence is basically scientific heresy, and in many circles it is religious heresy as well. A recognition of that simple statement would indeed change your world.

Seth

#18. Because if he wasn't really, really careful, Lori Sullivan was just going to keep stealing his heart
one sentence, one meal, one smile at time

Bella Andre

#19. If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.

Sam Kean

#20. Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

P.D. James

#21. Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.

Barbara Jordan

#22. If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!

David Mermin

#23. Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King Jr., can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream speech. No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this had a dream. We do not know what the dream was'.

Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

#24. I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

Asghar Farhadi

#25. True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Zig Ziglar

#26. If you could sum up your life in one sentence, then you didn't live much of a life.

Carroll Bryant

#27. The one sentence I regret? "Let's watch some porn.

Sarina Bowen

#28. The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

#29. Thirty years later, Bruno was convinced that, taken in context, the episode could be summed up in one sentence: Caroline Yessayan's miniskirt was to blame for everything.

Michel Houellebecq

#30. All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

Benjamin Disraeli

#31. There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

Mao Zedong

#32. Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

Ernest Hemingway,

#33. Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met ... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.

Eric Weiner

#34. The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

Emma Goldman

#35. We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.

Joan Blades

#36. A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Gretchen Rubin

#37. I have studied all the sciences and all the major religions and can sum it up in one sentence. We become, have and attract what we think about and act upon correctly the most.

John Assaraf

#38. Emily swore and he was impressed; he'd never thought to string cocksuckingsonofabitch together in one sentence. He couldn't help himself; the snort of laughter escaped before he could hold it in.

C.H. Admirand

#39. I asked the indefatigable Betty White what she was going to do when she got home. She told me she was going to fix herself a "vodka on the rocks and eat a cold hot dog." In one sentence, she proved my theory and made me excited for my future.

Amy Poehler

#40. People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

John C. Maxwell

#41. Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.

Francine Prose

#42. So you don't do one night stands. And you're not looking for a boyfriend, or a husband. What do you want, Reina?"
I swallowed, my throat suddenly dry. How could one sentence strike with the force of a lightning bolt? "How about you make me an offer?

Tara Leigh

#43. Mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

Mark Twain

#44. If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

Stephen Covey

#45. If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

David Mamet

#46. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.

Robert A. Heinlein

#47. But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

Chris Bohjalian

#48. You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does ... it's illegal.

Lewis Black

#49. When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.

Alan Moore

#50. Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Demi Lovato

#51. If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

Neal Stephenson

#52. All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know.

Eckhart Tolle

#53. Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

Stephen Colbert

#54. Hope is nice. Fucking useless in this situation, but still nice. You have one sentence before you start bleeding. Make it good.

Lauren Stewart

#55. Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Maria Montessori

#56. I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.

Lydia Davis

#57. After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

Maggie Stiefvater

#58. I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

William Faulkner

#59. The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Helen Hunt

#60. A novel, basically, is writing one sentence - then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

Young-Ha Kim

#61. You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better.

Ron Johnson

#62. There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

Judith Briles

#63. The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.

Evan Daugherty

#64. Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

Freeman Dyson

#65. Can you tell the story of redemption in one sentence? Sin has driven us out of the garden, but grace drives us right into the Father's arms.

Paul David Tripp

#66. Sometimes you talk about the problems in fifty different ways until you find that one sentence that you can see makes their eyes pop, as if they're thinking, 'Oh, I want to do it.

Ed Catmull

#67. It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

James Lipton

#68. If there were one sentence that explained everything you feel right now, what would it be?" I thought about it for a second. "I fucking hope that everyone dies.

Katie Heaney

#69. But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.

Richard Flanagan

#70. I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

Paul Lisicky

#71. THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!
This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

Amy Poehler

#72. Learn to tell what your story is about in one sentence. Narrow your focus. Stories have to be about something.

Mary Carter

#73. If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie

#74. I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#75. The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

Amy Dacyczyn

#76. 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

#77. The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.

Storm Jameson

#78. What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

Virginia Woolf

#79. I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for. He didn't find it, but we think we're hot on the trail.

Brian Greene

#80. To exploit is to take undue advantage of someone else's need, whether that be unfair wages paid or unfair prices charged. I have just summed up the current state of modern capitalism in one sentence.

Robert Peate

#81. George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

Emilio Botin

#82. With one sentence and two steps, forever began. Till Page walked through my door for the very first time.

Aly Martinez

#83. What is your one-sentence job description?

Andy Stanley

#84. He was prodding her. Let him. They were on safe ground. "Well, in trying to satisfy one amendment, it looks like they rubbed out another one. The Tenth. It's only a small amendment, only one sentence long, but it seemed to be the one that meant the most, somehow.

Harper Lee

#85. Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

W.P. Kinsella

#86. Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

Philip Yancey

#87. If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

Paula McLain

#88. I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he did? He made everybody else without dreams feel real bad.

Christopher Titus

#89. Page one, sentence one:
"A Sister of Christian rehabilitation was soliciting funds at the bottom of the escalator. Our eyes met and I smiled first; therefore no donation necessary.

Chris Santana

#90. Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence. The way one sentence follows another, if we pay attention to syntax and rhythm, should express the final effect we want the narrative to have on a reader.

Lee Martin

#91. She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around.
"What's that?" I asked.
"That I do still love you."
With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.

Richelle Mead

#92. In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question What is this organization's essential mission or purpose and what is its main strategy to accomplish that?

Bruce Feiler

#93. A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time.

C.J. Heck

#94. A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.

Dai Vernon

#95. In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#96. The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Richard Cecil

#97. When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

Albert Einstein

#98. Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.

Vera Farmiga

#99. Don't get me wrong, I love my parents and all. But my father and I have the sort of loving relationship in which, whenever he says more than one sentence in a a row to me, I want to stab myself in the heart with a a recently formed silver knife.

Leila Sales

#100. It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence?

Brenda Shaughnessy