Top 75 One Word Quotes

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

Ant has been so supportive. He’s very grounded. As he entered my world, there’s so many false stories spinning out there and he’s never said one word to me about any of it.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

In Utah, one word sums up our business prowess: investment. Simply put, we know we can’t have long-term economic growth and maintain Utah’s enviable quality of life without making some critical investments.

In one word, if I have to describe ‘Damadamm!’ then I will say that the performances, the music, and the script reflect sincerity.

For my 100-day project, I decided to keep a journal. It could be just one sentence. Often, it was just one word, occasionally the F-word. But it gave me a sense of structure.

Having our privacy exposed is particularly crushing for the British – a nation for whom the phrase: ‘How are you?’ really means: ‘Please say one word, then leave me alone.’

Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can’t give advice to anyone.

The one word that makes a good manager – decisiveness.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

On Hillary’s side, I don’t think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be ‘beholden.’ Nothing’s gonna really change. Government’s gonna have the answer to everything, and that’s gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don’t want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.

I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is ‘boring.’ The future is going to be boring.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, ‘You never know.’

If someone was like, ‘Describe yourself in one word,’ I would never say, ‘Handsome.’

I once wrote that the first week in Jerusalem was the hardest week of my life. I was different, other; my clothes were different, as was my language. All of the classes were in Hebrew – science, bible, literature. I sat there not understanding one word. When I tried to speak, everyone would laugh at me.

If I had one word to describe how I feel at never having to work with co-host Adam Savage again it’d be relief.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, ‘Impurity.’ Because that’s it.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, ‘Will kids get this?’ I don’t think it’s important that they get everything. I think that it’s important that they get engaged, interested.

Food to me, in one word, is ‘creativity’ or ‘expression.’ It’s simply, ‘This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.’

I never did, and I never will, thank any man for altering any one word of my compositions without my privity.

I’m going to make a film where not one word is really important. I’m going to make it all action.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is ‘enough.’ Enough.

I listen to these pundits all the time breaking down Trump – ‘He’s brash, and he’s bold, and he’s successful’ – and none of those are what it is. There’s one word to sum it up, and it’s courage. He has courage.

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

In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It’s the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.

Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t take long. She’ll look you in the eye and say one word: ‘Money.’

You give a press conference, and they’ll pick one word, they’ll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

I’ve interviewed people where their response was literally one word for everything I asked. This didn’t help me get to know them, nor did it sell me on their skill set to help my company achieve its goals. I got nothing from them, which meant I had no way of knowing if they were really a good fit in the company.

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we’re made up of one word or two.

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

Our style, in one word, the Image guys, our approach to the page was bold.

One word that seems to connect both leaders and employees is: ‘outcomes.’ Built into that word is the implicit and explicit understanding and agreement that effective actions lead to good outcomes; ineffective actions lead to poor outcomes.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that’s what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word… but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

I’m the only man in the world that has made a career with one word: ‘Grrrrreeeat!’

When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

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

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that’s what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn’t one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a translation problem because if you see the word sister, you don’t know how to translate it to Chinese because you don’t know if it’s an elder sister or younger.

I want to create. I think that’s the one word I can grow on.

I never have really become accustomed to the ‘John.’ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – John Wayne.

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don’t.

On the pitch if I could summarise 2018 in one word it would be progress.

One word in one system might mean something else. You have to get a feel for it and study hard and then also when you get into these game-plan weeks, just bear down on what we’re doing on a week-to-week basis.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

There should be a whole book written about that one word: country. What does that mean, country? It’s such a huge umbrella. I would hope that what makes it country is that it all starts with a song. The story being told in three and a half minutes that is not being told on another station.

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

You gotta ask ‘why’ questions. ‘Why did you do this?’ A ‘why’ question you can’t answer with one word.

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

Oasis can’t be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.