true love is felonious... You take someone's breath away... You rob them of the ability to utter a single word... You steal a heart.
- Jodi Picoult
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.
- Nicole Krauss
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
- Paul Thomas Anderson
It was clear to the one speaking that each of his words was being allowed to enter into his listener, who sat there quietly, openly, waiting' not a single word was disregarded or met with impatience; Vasudeva attached neither praise nor blame to what he heard but merely listened.
- Hermann Hesse
They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
- Oscar Wilde
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing ever begins.
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.
- Clive Barker
One single word and I swear I'll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The single word that counted on Wednesday was the one that came from the muzzle of a gun, addressed to somebody on their knees. Better to choose our hour than to accept this. We know each other. We've known each other from the time of Crocodilopolis. [Letter unsent]
- John Berger
I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.
- Joe Biden
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
- Ann Brashares
I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.
- Eva Braun
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.
- Chuck Palahniuk
HAZEL: "THERE," she said.The official building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: AMAZON.
"oh," Frank said."Uh, no, Hazel. That's a modern thing. They're a company, Right? they sell stuff on the internet. They're not actually Amazons."
"Unless..." Percy walked through the doors.
- Rick Riordan
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.
- Augusten Burroughs
Good guy. There was efficiency to male language. Those two words were what guys said about other guys that they really respected. Guys they could count on, that were solid, whose word you trusted...The language for the other kind of men-even more efficient. Cut down to a single word they deserved. Asshole.
- Deb Caletti
It was a question of insurmountable proportions. A single word that held every fear he had ever had-and every wish he had ever made on those cursed stars. She needn't say more. In a single syllable, she had said more than he wanted to hear in an entire lifetime.
- V S Carnes
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.
- Gail Carriger
I barely got a single word out of her each day and resorted to leaving her be, to eliminate the frustration of hearing her silence.
- Katlyn Charlesworth
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.
- David Levithan
breathtaking, adj.
Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
- David Levithan
Breathtaking - Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
- David Levithan
breathtaking, adj.
Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
- David Levithan
Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.
- Pat Conroy
It's when I'm around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now, when Dave's walking next to me wearing an old black singlet and board shorts and the tattoo of a bird on his wrist, every single word in my head except "no" and "huh" is lying somewhere on a beack getting a suntan
- Cath Crowley
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
- Virginia Woolf
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
So that I could break the rule
I learnt all the words and broke them up
To make a single word:
Homeland.
- Mahmoud Darwish
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
- Jeffery Deaver
It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.
- Guy Delisle
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.
- Charles Dickens
Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.
- Sharon M Draper
When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.
- Hilary Duff
I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
- Patty Duke
She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.
- Marguerite Duras
There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
- Justin Townes Earle
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
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
there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?
- Victor Hugo
For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.
- Anna Friel
It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me
- Witold Gombrowicz
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
- Johann Georg Hamann
No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.
- Kristin Hannah
No furniture is so charming as books,even if you never open them or read a single word.
- Sydney Smith
The very second the door closed behind them, Nicholas started shouting. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised.
'I can't believe you did that!' he railed. 'After the field party, the vamps in the garden. Didn't you hear a single word I said?'
'No why don't you yell a little louder?'
'This isn't funny, Lucy.
- Alyxandra Harvey
The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
- Alice Hoffman
What are you doing?" she cried in protest.
"Playing," he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.
- Linda Howard
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
- Walt Whitman
He knew that when he'd let Cheyenne lead him away, he'd lost his chance to find out the name of the girl who, without a single word spoken to him, had stolen his heart.
- M Leighton
Dr. Kennedy talked me out of killing myself--for now--without saying a single words or even knowing what was going on. Which, I've decided, is the mark of a totally kick-ass therapist.
- Barry Lyga
Downfall? How ominous you make it sound. There is no downfall being plotted. Merely a question being asked. (Callie)
Aye, and empires have been splintered apart over the mere utterance of a single word. (Sin)
- Kinley Macgregor
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words
- Brennan Manning
...[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 worda glance.
- Ian Mcewan
Falling in love could be achieved in a single word--a glance.
- Ian Mcewan
If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
- Lauren Oliver
You know I want you?"
"Yes." Though it sounded breathless, she was proud to be able to utter even a single word.
"I usually get what I want."
A slight smile tickled at her lips. "Do I have a say in the matter?
- Christy Reece
Everything is up to you. You can rescue me or banish me with a single word.
- Sylvain Reynard
One would never write a single word if one knew the horrors that lay ahead,' agreed Charlotte.
'But if you sell copies by the sackload, you may well forget the horrors,' I agreed quickly.
- Eva Rice
Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
- Don Roff
To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's like dating, only with sentences......It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word (tangerine). We're meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know.
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese..
- Meg Rosoff
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
- Jeanette Winterson
a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
- Dejan Stojanovic
This rule is difficult to apply; it is frequently hard to decide whether a single word, such as however, or a brief phrase, is or is not parenthetic. If the interruption to the flow of the sentence is but slight, the writer may safely omit the commas. But whether the interruption be slight or considerable, he must never omit one comma and leave the other. Such punctuation as
- William Strunk Jr
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
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people.
And now he was gone.
- Rachel Vincent
I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master.
-- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere
- Margaret Weis
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
- Paul Westerberg
Kim lifted the lid. Inside, on a small pillow covered in white velvet, lay a gold sunburst the size of her thunbnail, hung on a delicate chain. It looked a little like the first spell she had ever cast, a small explosion of light re-created in metal, and she was not really surprised to find the card with the single word "Mairelon" scraled across it.
- Patricia C Wrede
- Jodi Picoult
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.
- Nicole Krauss
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
- Paul Thomas Anderson
It was clear to the one speaking that each of his words was being allowed to enter into his listener, who sat there quietly, openly, waiting' not a single word was disregarded or met with impatience; Vasudeva attached neither praise nor blame to what he heard but merely listened.
- Hermann Hesse
They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
- Oscar Wilde
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing ever begins.
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.
- Clive Barker
One single word and I swear I'll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The single word that counted on Wednesday was the one that came from the muzzle of a gun, addressed to somebody on their knees. Better to choose our hour than to accept this. We know each other. We've known each other from the time of Crocodilopolis. [Letter unsent]
- John Berger
I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.
- Joe Biden
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
- Ann Brashares
I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.
- Eva Braun
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.
- Chuck Palahniuk
HAZEL: "THERE," she said.The official building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: AMAZON.
"oh," Frank said."Uh, no, Hazel. That's a modern thing. They're a company, Right? they sell stuff on the internet. They're not actually Amazons."
"Unless..." Percy walked through the doors.
- Rick Riordan
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.
- Augusten Burroughs
Good guy. There was efficiency to male language. Those two words were what guys said about other guys that they really respected. Guys they could count on, that were solid, whose word you trusted...The language for the other kind of men-even more efficient. Cut down to a single word they deserved. Asshole.
- Deb Caletti
It was a question of insurmountable proportions. A single word that held every fear he had ever had-and every wish he had ever made on those cursed stars. She needn't say more. In a single syllable, she had said more than he wanted to hear in an entire lifetime.
- V S Carnes
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.
- Gail Carriger
I barely got a single word out of her each day and resorted to leaving her be, to eliminate the frustration of hearing her silence.
- Katlyn Charlesworth
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.
- David Levithan
breathtaking, adj.
Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
- David Levithan
Breathtaking - Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
- David Levithan
breathtaking, adj.
Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
- David Levithan
Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.
- Pat Conroy
It's when I'm around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now, when Dave's walking next to me wearing an old black singlet and board shorts and the tattoo of a bird on his wrist, every single word in my head except "no" and "huh" is lying somewhere on a beack getting a suntan
- Cath Crowley
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
- Virginia Woolf
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
So that I could break the rule
I learnt all the words and broke them up
To make a single word:
Homeland.
- Mahmoud Darwish
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
- Jeffery Deaver
It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.
- Guy Delisle
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.
- Charles Dickens
Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.
- Sharon M Draper
When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.
- Hilary Duff
I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
- Patty Duke
She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.
- Marguerite Duras
There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
- Justin Townes Earle
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
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
there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?
- Victor Hugo
For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.
- Anna Friel
It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me
- Witold Gombrowicz
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
- Johann Georg Hamann
No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.
- Kristin Hannah
No furniture is so charming as books,even if you never open them or read a single word.
- Sydney Smith
The very second the door closed behind them, Nicholas started shouting. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised.
'I can't believe you did that!' he railed. 'After the field party, the vamps in the garden. Didn't you hear a single word I said?'
'No why don't you yell a little louder?'
'This isn't funny, Lucy.
- Alyxandra Harvey
The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
- Alice Hoffman
What are you doing?" she cried in protest.
"Playing," he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.
- Linda Howard
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
- Walt Whitman
He knew that when he'd let Cheyenne lead him away, he'd lost his chance to find out the name of the girl who, without a single word spoken to him, had stolen his heart.
- M Leighton
Dr. Kennedy talked me out of killing myself--for now--without saying a single words or even knowing what was going on. Which, I've decided, is the mark of a totally kick-ass therapist.
- Barry Lyga
Downfall? How ominous you make it sound. There is no downfall being plotted. Merely a question being asked. (Callie)
Aye, and empires have been splintered apart over the mere utterance of a single word. (Sin)
- Kinley Macgregor
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words
- Brennan Manning
...[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 worda glance.
- Ian Mcewan
Falling in love could be achieved in a single word--a glance.
- Ian Mcewan
If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
- Lauren Oliver
You know I want you?"
"Yes." Though it sounded breathless, she was proud to be able to utter even a single word.
"I usually get what I want."
A slight smile tickled at her lips. "Do I have a say in the matter?
- Christy Reece
Everything is up to you. You can rescue me or banish me with a single word.
- Sylvain Reynard
One would never write a single word if one knew the horrors that lay ahead,' agreed Charlotte.
'But if you sell copies by the sackload, you may well forget the horrors,' I agreed quickly.
- Eva Rice
Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
- Don Roff
To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's like dating, only with sentences......It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word (tangerine). We're meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know.
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese..
- Meg Rosoff
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
- Jeanette Winterson
a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
- Dejan Stojanovic
This rule is difficult to apply; it is frequently hard to decide whether a single word, such as however, or a brief phrase, is or is not parenthetic. If the interruption to the flow of the sentence is but slight, the writer may safely omit the commas. But whether the interruption be slight or considerable, he must never omit one comma and leave the other. Such punctuation as
- William Strunk Jr
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
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people.
And now he was gone.
- Rachel Vincent
I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master.
-- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere
- Margaret Weis
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
- Paul Westerberg
Kim lifted the lid. Inside, on a small pillow covered in white velvet, lay a gold sunburst the size of her thunbnail, hung on a delicate chain. It looked a little like the first spell she had ever cast, a small explosion of light re-created in metal, and she was not really surprised to find the card with the single word "Mairelon" scraled across it.
- Patricia C Wrede
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