Single Word Quotes
140 quotes by 124 authors
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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
— Clive Barker
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I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done…
— Eva Braun
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill
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One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long…
— Takeda Nobushige
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Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of…
— Stephen King
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The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.
— Daniel H. Pink
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The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When…
— Jae Hee
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The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
— Bernadette Roberts
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A single word often betrays a great design.
— Jean Racine
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If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always…
— Joyce Tenneson
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I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll
— Patty Duke
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Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests…
— Nelson Searcy
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I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
— Clarice Lispector
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I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
— Gautama Buddha
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My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.
— Gautama Buddha
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated…
— Teresa of Avila
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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
— Jeffery Deaver
Who Wrote These Single Word Quotes
124 authors contributed a total of 140 Single Word Quotes, led by these top contributors: