Single Quotes

• It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done, and you can't change a single word, it's a totally different thing. I was surprised by what that thing was.

  

  Danielle Dutton
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Done

• Confining a resume to a single page is good advice for anyone.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Good
  • Single
  • Advice

• 'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Fun
  • Song
  • California

• I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me.

  

  Don Lemon
  • She
  • Mom
  • Proud

• One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • Long
  • Children
  • Star

• The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. … One of the great strengths of our political system always has been our tendency to keep religious issues in the background. By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • World
  • Great
  • Political

• The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Path
  • Cutting
  • Iran

• When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People
  • Power
  • Stop

• Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • Long
  • Loss

• I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Believe
  • Single

• It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Long
  • Character
  • Focus

• Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

  

  David Puttnam
  • Success
  • Education
  • Quality

• Free Trade is a great pacificator. We have had many quarrels, many causes of quarrels, during the last fifty years, but we have not had a single war with any first-class Power. Free Trade is slowly but surely cleaving a path through the dense and dark thicket of armaments to the sunny land of brotherhood amongst nations.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Great
  • Power
  • War

• I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Done
  • Kind

• ...there won’t be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Single

• I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.

  

  R. J. Anderson
  • Music
  • Long
  • Alone

• Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller
  • Single
  • Understanding
  • Baby

• Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Believe
  • School
  • Age

• Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Single

• Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Alone

• I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Law
  • Lost

• There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.

  

  John McAfee
  • Single

• I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Up
  • Country
  • Single

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