One Syllable Words Quotes

#1. I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

Emily Giffin

#2. How can love's spaciousness
be conveyed in the narrow
confines of one syllable?

Diane Ackerman

#3. He purred the words, as if his tongue was lazy and had all the time in the world to wrap around each and every syllable. She wondered if his tongue would be so thorough on a woman's body.

Blue Kincaid

#4. In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

Tullian Tchividjian

#5. After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

V.S. Naipaul

#6. WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY:
In your case, ED is not a man's name.

Robin Glasser

#7. I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

John Cale

#8. I guess I'm the perfect match, then, for a girl who likes to visit a cemetery." He drew out every syllable so that it sounded like a love song.
I closed my eyes, savoring those words. "A perfect match," I murmured. "My other half.

Jessica Verday

#9. He's a man who measures words as if he had only a few given to him by Fate; too generous a syllable from his lips, and he might fall over dead.

Jeff VanderMeer

#10. When no one can see who you are, no one really knows you. The loneliness must be like an ulcer that's always gnawing at your gut.

Andrea Cremer

#11. For, whom the Muses smile upon,
And touch with soft persuasion,
His words like a storm-wind can bring
Terror and beauty on their wing;
In his every syllable
Lurketh nature veritable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Utterance
Sitting over words
Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
Not far
Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
The echo of everything that has ever
Been spoken
Still spinning its one syllable
Between the earth and silence

W.S. Merwin

#13. Oh.' A syllable can express a great deal. Will's sounded of resignation but also of swear words, and the smell of rotting vegetation, and wary amusement and bitten fingernails.

Katherine Rundell

#14. Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.

Nachman Of Breslov

#15. You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#16. Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

Jodi Picoult

#17. Her grandfather's books [ ... ] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious

Irene Nemirovsky

#18. I was learning that the best conversations consisted of keeping quiet and listening, and speaking, when one spoke at all, in words of a single syllable.

Alan Bradley

#19. The Three Oddest Words
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.

Wislawa Szymborska

#20. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

Earl Blumenauer

#21. Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Richard Bach

#22. You've always
been skinny,
always will.
I can feel
each
reclusive
bone
poke through,
the bones of
Embarrassment,
Anger,
Relief.
I push some back in,
but leave
Anger
sticking out.

Thalia Chaltas

#23. A hundred brilliant witticisms died suffocating on the captain's heavy glove. Thus muted, I pumped my codpiece at the duke and tried to force a fart, but my bum tumpet could find no note.

Christopher Moore

#24. I knew my words were harsh, as I enunciated each syllable slowly, but I felt like I had to be clear with him. We'd crossed too many lines that day, and it needed to stop.

Monica Alexander

#25. I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

Yelawolf

#26. Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.

Mark Forsyth

#27. Aaron would never make up anything like that."
"That's because Aaron doesn't say anything that requires words of more than one syllable.

Richelle Mead

#28. The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Sammy Cahn

#29. MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable ... Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

Ambrose Bierce

#30. True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

Philip Sidney

#31. There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

Audrey Niffenegger

#32. I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

Susan Howe