Single Quotes

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

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• 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

• The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Single

• There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.

  

  John R. Allen
  • Relationship
  • 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

• 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

• Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Up
  • Different
  • Author

• Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Mistake
  • George Clooney
  • Clint Eastwood

• A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Life
  • Single

• I read every single comment that comes in.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Single

• Ya' want to know what I will do as president it's real simple. We'll kill terrorists, we'll repeal Obamacare, and we will defend the constitution. Every single word of of it!

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Real
  • Single
  • Simple

• But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Why
  • Single

• 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

• The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Spanish

• Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime

  

  Ian Brennan
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Single
  • Fatherhood

• The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Earth
  • Single
  • Brain

• Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Song
  • Single
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

  

  Connie Stevens
  • Beautiful
  • Single
  • Mom

• I love watching a single pork chop seasoned with garlic and shallots cook and see the fat bubble around it.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Single

• In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • She
  • Nature
  • Painting

• People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

  

  Lauren London
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

  

  Kenny Hickey
  • Single

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