Single Word Quotes (page 2)

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• words
• she
• single

Truce," she decided and held out a hand. When he only stared at her, she gave a quick huff and swallowed another morsel of pride. "Please."Trapped by the single word, he took the offered hand. "All right." When she would have drawn her hand away, he tightened his grip. "Why?"I don't know," Gennie told him with fresh impatience. "Just a wild urge to see if I can get along with an ogre." At the ironic lift of his brow, she sighed. "All right, that was just a quick slip. I take it back. Nora Roberts

• single
• words
• manly

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

• may
• evening
• words

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought Percy Bysshe Shelley

• world
• achievement
• childhood

...[W]riting stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleasures of miniaturisation. A world could be made in five pages....The childhood of a spoiled prince could be framed within half a page, a moonlit dash through sleepy villages was one rhythmically empathic sentence, falling in love would be achieved in a single word—a glance. Ian Mcewan

• cover
• experience
• words

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions. Jeffrey Eugenides

• looking back
• cat
• him

For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.'They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for... Jeffrey Eugenides

• tree
• understanding
• life

I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it! Charles Simic

• words
• single
• book

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth. Galileo Galilei

• single
• week
• words

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue. Anna Friel

• single
• dream big
• people

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening. Taylor Swift

• single
• words
• rock and roll

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

• single
• writing
• words

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

• clever
• single
• saying

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde

• words
• confused
• happy

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

• words
• great
• single

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