Singular Quotes

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.

The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.