Single Quotes

• In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.

  

  I. A. Richards
  • Different
  • Together
  • Thoughts

• Stay single as long as you can - you'll be married the rest of your life.

  

  Jimmy Garoppolo
  • Life
  • Long
  • Rest

• I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.

  

  Alex Lowe
  • Single
  • Passion

• My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

  

  Kim Raver
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Mom

• I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

  

  Paula Danziger
  • Single

• Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Lost
  • Single

• A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

  

  Eileen Caddy
  • Single
  • Unique

• I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Women
  • She
  • Single

• I was doing a wee gig at the Edinburgh Fringe, and while I was walking down to the show from the train station, someone stopped and asked if they could get a picture with me. This was about six months before I released my first single as well, so my response was, 'Are you sure?'

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Picture
  • Stopped
  • Asked

• You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Single

• I've actually medalled in every single swimming meet except for the Olympics, so that's the goal. I want to get on that podium - I really do. But for me, that's not something I can control... so I will be happy with going out there and swimming a race that I'm proud of.

  

  Alia Atkinson
  • Happy
  • Control
  • Proud

• God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • God
  • Bad
  • Library

• Our first single wasn't put out by any big-name record company. We had been playing in clubs for a while and we wanted to put out an EP. None of the record companies would have us. They told us that our type of rock and roll wasn't happening. We decided to show 'em they were wrong, so we recorded the stuff on our own and put it out on our own private label, Bludgeon Riffola Records. When it started to sell a lot of copies, the record companies 'suddenly' discovered us. It was strange, but we felt vindicated.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Discovered
  • Decided
  • Label

• The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Men
  • Habit

• We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

  

  Peter MacKay
  • Country
  • Support
  • Stress

• 'Star Wars' novels that focus on a single character are few and far between.

  

  James Luceno
  • Character
  • Focus
  • Star

• To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.

  

  Geoff Downes Yes
  • Different
  • Single

• The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Trouble
  • Lonely
  • Stay

• Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Single
  • Excellence

• As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • People
  • Band
  • Rip

• There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.

  

  Martin Rees
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail.

  

  Geoff Downes Yes
  • Single

• I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Game

• The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

  

  Alphonso Jackson
  • Moving
  • Challenge
  • Perspective

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