Top 81 Six Words Quotes
#1. If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.
Kresley Cole
#2. The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow!
John Gaver
#3. He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. You're not crazy. I love you.
Lauren Hammond
#4. Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.
G.K. Chesterton
#5. I can write a short story in six words. For sale: baby shoes, never used
Ernest Hemingway,
#7. Radar half raised his hand. I dutifully called on him. Yes, I was wondering if it would be possible for you to write a sestina about Margo Roth Spiegelman's breasts? Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy.
John Green
#8. Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.
Robert Johnson
#9. The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
P. J. O'Rourke
#10. Better to be safe than sorry. Wow. Those six words ... they could describe my whole existence.
Alessandra Torre
#11. She had surrendered her virtue at six-and-ten, to a beautiful blond-haired sailor on a trading galley up from Lys. He only knew six words of the Common Tongue, but "fuck" was one of them - the very word she'd hoped to hear.
George R R Martin
#12. No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
Seth Godin
#13. My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.
Matthew Perry
#14. I detest that woman [Rachel Lynde] more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into six words, and throw it at you like a brick.
L.M. Montgomery
#15. Let me speak to your boss I said. Six magic words that roil deep in the bowels of anymore collecting a paycheck on a biweekly basis. It's like winking at a leprechaun: he has to give up his pot of gold, and yet no one knows why.
Walter Mosley
#17. The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
C.S. Forester
#19. It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I can change seven.
Dorothy Parker
#20. I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.
Kenneth Cranham
#21. Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.
Johan Cruijff
#22. If you're doing six takes, instead of doing six variations on the same words, why not just throw out the words and make them up as you go along, if you're comfortable with it? It gives the movies a slightly rangier feeling, and more of an accidental feel, but it also makes them edgier.
Harold Ramis
#24. Fire, water, earth, and air,
All meet in the dragon's lair.
Six brave hearts have failed the test;One continues in the quest.
Remember well the words you know
When on to find your fate you go.
Emily Rodda
#26. - I probably shouldn't tell you this, I said.
- Kay-Kay, those are my six favorite words in the English language.
Amor Towles
#27. If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
Brian Lumley
#30. Tell Jim he was born at six in the morning.
John Joyce
#31. She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.
Patrick Dennis
#32. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle with words.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#34. What would you do if she wanted me?"
His hand clenched tight in Six's shirt. "She can't have you. Not tonight."
"Possessive, aren't you?"
"She can't have you." The words ripped free of him again, rough and raw. "Maybe not ever.
Kit Rocha
#37. A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
Kurt Vonnegut
#40. I died seventy-six hours ago - or so I've been told. Nonexistence - how to describe it? There are no words. I leave that question and the entire Great Guess to the philosophers, the theologians, and the ministers. This is all I know: I was; I was not; I was again.
Stephen Payne
#42. Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
Catherine DeVrye
#43. Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.
Lev Grossman
#44. I haven't published a novel in six years; instead, I fill my departmental hours casting words of praise into the bureaucratic abyss. On multiple occasions, serving on awards committees, I was actually required to write LORs to myself.
Julie Schumacher
#45. I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was a shock to realise that I had been writing for some six hours.
Gavin Maxwell
#46. I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.
Henning Mankell
#47. Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!
Ray Harmony
#48. Ben's words called to my heart. Instead of responding with terror, it opened like a fist uncurling, as though it had been waiting twenty-six years just to hear his voice.
Anise Eden
#50. I felt like a character in a science fiction story, trapped in someone else's body, articulating someone else's words. To be frank, I bored even myself. And by the time I was thirty-six, my course was set, my die stamped, I knew I would never change.
Philip Palmer
#52. And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.
Shelby Foote
#53. I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. (Oct. 28th is officially Slap A Dead Poet Day in our Family now)
Joanne Sherman
#54. Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
Ian McEwan
#55. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,
Joe Biden
#57. When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's so perfectly Bill." He'd read it and say, "Are you kidding? I can't say these words." So it's all about perception.
Harold Ramis
#59. How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one
John Creasey
#60. Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.
Holly Black
#61. When top-level chess players look at a board, they see words, not letters. Instead of seeing twenty-five pieces, they may see just five or six groups of pieces. That's why it's easy for them to remember where all the pieces are.
Geoff Colvin
#62. I'd overheard her several times on her lunch breaks, talking about how she wanted to be married before she turned twenty five. She also apparently wanted to be a stay-at-home mom with six kids, and live in a house in the suburbs. In other words, she was completely out of her fucking mind.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#63. His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
E.B. White
#65. The next summer we went to France for six weeks, and I added another 420 words, most of them found in the popular gossip magazine, 'Voici'. "Man-eater", I'd say. "Gold digger, roustabout, louse".
"Who are you talking about?" my neighbors would ask. "What social climber? Where?
David Sedaris
#67. There are nine different words in Maya for the color blue...but just three Spanish translations, leaving six butterflies that can be seen only by the Maya, proving beyond doubt that when a language dies, six butterflies disappear from the consciousness of the earth.
Earl Shorris
#68. I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer.
Daniel Alarcon
#70. Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Sarah Vowell
#72. It's easier when the patient is ninety-four, in the last stages of dementia, with a severe brain bleed. But for someone like me - a thirty-six-year-old given a diagnosis of terminal cancer - there aren't really words.
Paul Kalanithi
#73. Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he'd forgotten his backstage pass: 'Don't you know who I am?'
'Ha, ha, yeah, I do,' I said, 'You're out, arsehole'.
Peter Hook
#75. Six Stars,' he exclaimed. 'Finding the right words is hard!
Louise Marley
#76. Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between us.
C.J. Sansom
#78. Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.
Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them words everything.
Sapphire.
#79. Shit! Cressida! Move!" The words were barely out of his mouth when he leapt forward and down, jumping six steps and rolling when he hit the bottom, catching her and tucking her against him. Above them, metal popped and the boulder slammed down, resealing the hole.
Rachel Grant
#80. If you stop to think about it, you'll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.
Michael Ende
#81. Running twenty-six miles is no fun.
I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him.
Tony Hawks
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