One Word Quotes

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

I want to create. I think thats the one word I can grow on.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

I’ll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity.

I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.

A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

If you make one word out of 'The IRS' it spells 'theirs.'

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

Sean, as always, gets by on one word while everyone else needs five or six.

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

Tell me what you need." "You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing.

I'm not a racist. And to judge me by that one word is wrong. In no way, shape or form is it ever acceptable for me to use that word, even if it's friend to friend on a voicemail.

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

George W. Bush will not offer one word of criticism for any president. Not Clinton. Not Obama.

It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

Peeta" I said "Stay with me" I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

Never use one word when two will do.

When I look into your eyes, one word leaps to my mind every time: Forever.

I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.

Speak but one word to me.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

ONE WORDOne word— one stonein a cold river.One more stone—I'll need many stonesif I'm going to get over.

The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment.