Best One Word Lines
368 One Word quotes by 306 unique authors
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We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was…
— Amy Tan
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not…
— Plotinus
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.
— Buck Henry
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What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around…
— Kathleen Grissom
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I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What…
— Antonio Machado
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Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
— Earl Weaver
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If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
— Kingsley Amis
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Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched…
— Patrick Ness
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I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the…
— Leonard Cohen
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I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.
— Tommy Lasorda
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But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely…
— Jonathan Kozol
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One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that…
— Shaun Tomson
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He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
— Martin Luther
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One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word…
— Maurice Saatchi
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.
— Harold Geneen
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I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
— Elia Kazan
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I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.
— Charles Van Doren
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Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't…
— Dick Durbin
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There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.
— Joaquin Andujar
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One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes…
— Neil Gaiman
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You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because…
— Paul Gascoigne
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Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now.…
— Roy Haynes
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306 authors contributed a total of 368 One Word Quotes, led by these top contributors: