Single Word Quotes

140 Single Word quotes by 121 unique authors

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be… — Vladimir Lenin
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It… — Robin Meyers
The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up,… — Craig Stone
When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and… — Hilary Duff
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream… — Taylor Swift
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. — Paul Westerberg
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. — Walt Whitman
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. — Oscar Wilde
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else,… — Chuck Palahniuk
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it… — Galileo Galilei
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words — Brennan Manning
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be… — Clive Barker
She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a… — Marguerite Duras
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is… — Jeffrey Eugenides
...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance. — Ian Mcewan
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the… — Jeanette Winterson
true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart. — Jodi Picoult
He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must… — Gail Carriger
One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say! — Oscar Wilde
Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas.… — Sharon M. Draper
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word. — Pat Conroy

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121 authors contributed a total of 140 Single Word Quotes, led by these top contributors: