One Word Quotes

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

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 I had no home in the world.

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

Everything inspires me. It could be a movie. It could be a book. It could be a house. It could be one word - I'll think for hours and hours about one word sometimes. It could be anything.

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.

I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.

There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

one word could change the whole world

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.

Not one word of the following is true

Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.