Single Word Quotes
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'
For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
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 be bookish.
There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.
The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM
The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.
Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.
I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
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, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.