quotes about One Word

last updated: November 28, 2023

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
-- Flann O'Brien

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.
-- Mark Hodder

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Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.
-- Stephen Gillett

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You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.
-- Terry Bozzio

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“Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.”
“It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true”
“Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.”

Source : Sir William Davenant (1872). “Dramatic Works of William D'Avenant”, p.28
“Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.”
“I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.”

Source : Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books
“What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.”

Source : John Ford (2014). “'Tis Pity She's a Whore”, p.117, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.”
“All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.”
“Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.”

Source : "'Mad Men' Star Brian Batt Stands Up for Gay Actors" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. May 13, 2010.
“I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!”