One Word Quotes

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

~ Sophocles

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

~ Bertrand Russell

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

~ Stephen King

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

~ J. G. Ballard

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Buddha

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.

~ Edward Hirsch

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

~ Silvio Berlusconi