One Word Quotes

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

This god, this one word: I.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'

One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.

She wavers, she hesitates; in one word — she is a woman.

Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be...herpes.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

Packaged foods, partially hydrogenated oils and enriched flours are not your friends. Above all, remember this one word: transfats. Avoid it at all costs.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.

The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.

“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. Or two words – Big Business.

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.