Words Once Said Quotes

#1. Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, "That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield.

Sharon Creech

#2. I'm gonna come, Jenna. Because of you. Make me feel so fucking good."
She moaned, adoring the desire and need straining his words. "I wanna feel it," she said.
"Oh, baby, right now," he said. His hips crashed into hers once, twice, three times more, and he cried out. "Oh, fuck, Jenna.

Laura Kaye

#3. A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

Sharon Biggs Waller

#4. Once I asked my dad how you know when you're in love. He said you just know, and that if you have to ask the question then you haven't been in love yet. And he's right. Because there aren't words for this. No combination of letters could ever represent what she is to me.

Mindy McGinnis

#5. I'd rather wear out than rust out, he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield.

Laura Frantz

#6. I told you once before," I said, the words husky from remembrance. "Everyone holds their sins close to their skin."
Fangs gleamed for an instant before Vlad bit into his wrist, pooling up two deep crimson holes.
"Then come," he said, holding it out. "And taste mine.

Jeaniene Frost

#7. She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time."
An incantation.

Jennifer McMahon

#8. Listen to this, Sunny," she said, when her sister opened her eyes. "'Once a subject has been hypnotized, a simple hmmm word will make him or her perform whatever hmmm acts any hmmm wants hmmmed.'"
"Hmmm?" Sunny asked.
"Those are the words I don't know" Violet explained.

Lemony Snicket

#9. As long as you want me with you."
"I want me with you," she said at once. She heard the mix-up of her words - me with you - but didn't correct herself. It was exactly what she meant.

Laini Taylor

#10. The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#11. Father once said the real language of diplomacy was in the space between words.

Roshani Chokshi

#12. Nietzsche once said "that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts." I didn't believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate - and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.

Ron Rash

#13. This was clearly one of those moments. Mild-mannered, Dexter-Devoted Rita, who never lost her temper and never, never said bad words, was doing both at the same time and directing it all at her innocent-just-this-once husband. But

Jeff Lindsay

#14. I led Paul out the door, and neither of us said a word while we crossed the street. Once we made it to the other side, Paul stopped to stare at the building. He was babbling incoherently. The only words I caught were "fucking uptown" and "pancreas." He still had the doorman's pen in his hand.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#15. A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.

Cameron Jace

#16. Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

Philippa Gregory

#17. Immediately, I wanted to gather up everything I'd just said and stuff it back into my mouth. But once you've said stuff, you can't unsay it. Your words are out there, aren't they? Buzzing around in the quiet of the room so you can hear them echoing back at you...

Sarra Manning

#18. Sometimes words spoken are the ones you've been afraid to think,
but once they're said aloud there's no way to make them
disappear

Alice Hoffman

#19. Bruce Percy, a brilliant landscape photographer, once said to me, "You can't polish a turd." Wise words.

David DuChemin

#20. Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

Kate DiCamillo

#21. You will believe me when I say the life we lead grows less and less distinct from the life we led of Cruso's island. Sometimes I wake up not knowing where I am. The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day.

J.M. Coetzee

#22. Is there someone who will stand naked with you in the shower and hold you and comfort you?" he had once said in a hoarse whisper, his words seeming to tumble over one another. "If you can't do that with the person you're with, then you're not really in love

Isabel Vincent

#23. Once upon a time, a wise man said, "I have nothing to say!"
Wisdom does not always talk, it talks at the right time, saying the right words.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#24. Life is so easy when you are young, she thinks. You can say and do almost anything, safe in the knowledge that an apology will make everything better. The older you get, the more impact those harmful words and deeds have. Once said, those words cannot be unspoken.

Jane Green

#25. Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#26. I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.'
Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.

David Hewson

#27. A wise man once said to me, "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Actions speak louder than words. Don't just talk about what you plan to do. Make it happen.

Jes Fuhrmann

#28. In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words."

Phil Callaway

#29. It's said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words. I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized profusely-not once but three times. So what's the problem? It's four years ago. Do I need to apologize again?

Mel Gibson

#30. I once thought the three most important words in creation were 'whatever proved necessary,'" he said. "And now?" she gasped against his mouth. "Now I know I was wrong. The three most important words in creation are 'I love you

Gena Showalter

#31. A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God's sake, don't be boring !

Cameron Jace

#32. Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

Carl Sandburg

#33. They're not going to arrest you,' Skulduggery said as they walked through the door. 'They might glare at you and say angry words, but they won't arrest you. Well, they might arrest you. There's a good chance they will. But the important thing is that I've done nothing wrong.'
'For once.

Derek Landy

#34. Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

Nora Roberts

#35. Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words
"
"You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

Norton Juster

#36. Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.

A.E. Samaan

#37. The doc watched her go, and then said, very softly, "don't let it happen."
"Sorry?"
Samedi yanked his head back on, and once it was in place, looked at me very seriously. "Just ... don't let it happen."
He shuffled off into the other lab then, leaving me to stew in his words.

Lia Habel

#38. Nothing else need be said between them. No words or platitudes uttered. No fears or sins confessed. He saw absolution in her eyes. Understanding. Acceptance.
And still he gave her a moment. A warning. A chance to escape.
Because once he got his hands on her, there would be no stopping him.

Kerrigan Byrne

#39. The curiousity and to be interested in something makes you genius.

(Robin Sharma said this once, in other words which will mean that to be genius or clever you must be curious to learn!)

Deyth Banger

#40. She spoke throught her teeth. "Almost, dear. What were the real words you used? The bad words. It's okay to say them again, just this once."
I shrugged, "fine. I said' ... just 'cause Daddy wants you to suck on his ding-a-ling.

Michael Siemsen

#41. Winston Churchill once said "Never Give Up", little pause..... "Never Give Up" and again pause.... "Never Give Up". This 9 Words, said about success (Bob Proctor from Confidence!)

Deyth Banger

#42. A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

Roy Peter Clark

#43. John Bunyan once said, "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." If

Diane Moody

#44. The great thinkers have long pointed to a connection between creativity and happiness. "Happiness," Kant once said, "is an ideal not of reason but of imagination." In other words, we create our happiness, and the first step in creating anything is to imagine it.

Eric Weiner

#45. A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory ... Once you've said 'percentage' there's nothing more to worry about. If we had any other word ... maybe we might feel more uneasy ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#46. Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said 'Loud, Louder, and Loudest'!

Anastacia

#47. Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them

Federico Chini

#48. An oven that is stopp'd, or river stay'd,
Burneth more hotly, swelleth with more rage:
So of concealed sorrow may be said;
Free vent of words love's fire doth assuage;
But when the heart's attorney once is mute,
The client breaks, as desperate in his suit.

William Shakespeare

#49. I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-"
"And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?"
"He died," Magnus said. There was a finality to the way he said it that spoke of a deeper grief than words could paint.

Cassandra Clare

#50. Once we have our atium, we'll be happy."
"Not to mention rich," Ham added.
"The two words are synonyms, Hammond," Breeze said.

Brandon Sanderson

#51. Winston Churchill (him again!) once said words to the effect that everyone gets the chance to make their fortune once, but not everybody takes it.

Bear Grylls

#52. Why do you stay with me?" he whispered. He wished he hadn't said it once the words were out of of his mouth, wished he could pull them back, but Laurie didn't seem fazed at all. In fact, he just smiled a crooked smile and kissed him again. "Because I don't want to dance by myself," he whispered.

Heidi Cullinan

#53. Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

Italo Calvino

#54. I told you once," said Red, "that I wanted to hear your voice. I did not think the first words I would hear would be these."
"Those were not the first words," I whispered, fighting tears. I would not weep.

Juliet Marillier