Top 1200 Single Word Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

I had left the music industry at the end of 2001, after 10 years, and had spent three years writing every single day - producing two unpublished novels, one abandoned novel, and three unproduced screenplays. The word 'no' and I were on more than nodding terms. The word 'no' and I were talking about going on holiday together.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

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.

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.

Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.

We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.

Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That’s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it doesnot mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favor, it is not a profound word.

"Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric," he told his students, "meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word became flesh in the book of John: 'And the Word was made flesh, and He dwelt among us. 'Therefore, it was acceptable to depict the Word as having a human form. In Islamic tradition, however, the Word did not become flesh, and therefore the Word needs to remain in the form of a word … in most cases, calligraphic renderings of the names of the holy figures of Islam."

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in English. I thought for sure there'd be a word in Irish but there is none. And then I looked in several other languages and could not find one, until I found the word Sh'khol in Hebrew. I'm still not sure why so many languages don't have a word for this sort of bereavement, this shadowing.

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!

There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'

What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

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.'

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in my life." You can't do that. You can't decide that a word is forbidden now collectively amongst your group of human beings, that the word is a slanderous evil nasty word about homosexuals. It's not, the word doesn't mean that. And sometimes it's a good word to use in comedy. That's what your friend has to realize when he's at a bar just yelling out the word.

That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.