Single Quotes

• A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • True
  • Single

• Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a lot to cut.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Song
  • Single

• I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Single

• If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Men
  • Single
  • Quality

• Nothing is that which fills no space. If one single point placed in a circle may be the starting point of an infinite number of lines, and the termination of an infinite number of lines, there must be an infinite number of points separable from this point, and these when reunited become one again; whence it follows that the part may be equal to the whole.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Single
  • Space

• If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Single
  • Literature

• I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

  

  Kelly Lynch
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Single

• I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Game
  • Professional
  • Games

• That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

  

  Jock Sturges
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Ambition

• I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • Time
  • Today
  • Weird

• The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

  

  Kalki Krishnamurthy
  • World
  • Death
  • Earth

• It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Single

• There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

  

  Dorothy Dix
  • Single
  • Tears

• I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • God
  • Single

• Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.

  

  Saahil Prem
  • Truth
  • Sometimes
  • Lies

• I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Work
  • House
  • Reading

• This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

  

  Louis A. Johnson
  • America
  • Single
  • Service

• All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Reading
  • Wedding
  • Truck

• Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Focus
  • Pride
  • Athlete

• If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • World
  • Men
  • Struggle

• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Change
  • Moving
  • Motivational

• Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Real
  • Style
  • Diversity

• I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

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