Single Quotes

• I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Dad
  • Single

• It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Trying
  • Single

• Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Happy

• There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Mother
  • Single
  • Search

• This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of a toddler.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Feminist

• 'Blue Monday’ went on to be our biggest-selling single ever, still is. Even so, it was never that special to us and, to be honest, I thought ‘Thieves Like Us’ was a much better song.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Single
  • Honest
  • Blue Monday

• It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Long
  • Single

• With my first single, 'AM to PM,' I was just this cute 18-year-old. But 'cute' didn't get me older roles, and 'cute' wasn't selling records. I wanted people to see that I'd grown up, so I did 'Dip It Low.'

  

  Christine Flores
  • People
  • Up
  • Cute

• I've done a lot of work in Hollywood and theatre, but to be honest, the biggest pleasure I've ever got is from the TV single plays I've written. It's a format where you don't mind saying, 'I want to tackle some important themes head on.'

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Work
  • Important
  • Mind

• A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Hand
  • Car
  • Picture

• This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • World
  • Different
  • High

• Every single step, although I couldn't see it, was a step forward and built to where I am now.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Single

• I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I love looking out at 27 semis and being like, every single one of those semi trucks is there to put together my stage.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Together
  • Single

• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  

  Buddha
  • Life
  • Single

• There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

  

  David Remnick
  • World
  • Free
  • Single

• Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Practice
  • Philosophy
  • Motivational

• To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Thinking
  • Dance
  • Looks

• Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Power
  • Single

• 'The Godfather' illustrated the family values - the reality that it was really a family thing, honor and tradition. It wasn't just a single-dimension thing.

  

  Frank Vincent
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Honor

• I'm single but interviewing.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Single
  • Interviewing

• I was alone on a sunny shore by the forest’s pale blue lake, in the sky floated a single cloud and on the water a single isle. The ripe sweetness of summer dripped in beads from every tree and straight into my opened heart a tiny drop ran down.

  

  Edith Södergran
  • Heart
  • Cloud
  • Sweetness

• Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things being equal, any child of any race should be placed with any qualified parents without restriction or special conditions.

  

  John Ridley
  • Important
  • Family
  • Parents

• It's a part of my lifestyle to be healthy and eat healthy. I don't feel like I need to be like, 'You can't have this. You can't have that. You have to have this. You have to have that,' because then I feel like I will get inconsistent. I indulge when I want to, but try to be healthy every single day, too.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Single

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