82 Singular Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Great Self-Respect Respect Free Power Others Back Ourselves Lies Give Singular Expectations Us

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.' Shaquille O'Neal

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

Remember Possessive Singular

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people. David Carson

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving. Michael Eric Dyson

Somebody White Others Machine Some Superiority Individual Unconscious Driving Investment Demand Participation Supremacy Operating Because Singular Perpetuity Inferior Place While Bigot Inherent Belief Believed Conscious Innately

All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking. Anthony Doerr

Winter Cooking Light Wait Stove Think Recipe Valleys Out Pluck All-Around Magical Over Along Like Around Boxes Glow Singular Tucked Them Us Stand Multi-Dimensional Now Card Right Start

'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario. Neill Blomkamp

What's very interesting is that when we look at human bodies, we look at our body as a singular entity when it turns out, no, if I could reduce us to a small size as the size of a cell and put you inside your body, rather than seeing a singular entity, what you would see is a metropolis with 50 trillion citizens. Bruce Lipton

You Our Out Citizens Would Inside See Trillion Seeing Rather Small Entity Could Put Look Reduce Singular Metropolis Very Than Cell Human Size Interesting Us If I Could Bodies Body Turns Your Your Body

Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money. Howard Schultz

Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time. Ta-Nehisi Coates

War Time You Men First Before Radical President Civil Civil War Abraham Abraham Lincoln Had He Know First Time Limited Lincoln Singular Up Sitting Any Quite Stood African-American Who Served Right Suffrage

Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization. Aberjhani

Nature Celebrate Lost Guerrilla Resources Distorting Could Invested True Because True Nature Advocacy Opponents Been His Singular Historic Tragically Mandela Moment Many Now Early Millions

If you're a game company, you want to create a singular gaming experience, and part of that is doing stuff that nobody else is doing. If you're trying to create a game that feels different, you're going to create a lead that feels different. It's not going to be just another white guy. Aisha Tyler

I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences. Alain Ducasse

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

Music Generation Nothing This Generation Addiction About More Singular Than

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.' Annie Potts

You Together People Will Never Animation Like Toy Gosh Go Opposite Were Singular Very Getting May Oh Story Movies Room Lucky Even Appeared Tom Tom Hanks Play

If you listen to PWR BTTM, or to Gloss, If you look at me on stage, it can make you feel less alone. It makes you feel like you're a queer person and you have this singular power, but it's not like we're a brand. We're just real. Ben Hopkins

Alone Me You Power Stage Feel Like Look Make Makes Gloss Real Queer Singular Brand Person Listen Just Less

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision. Carla Gugino

Time You People Vision Difficult Films Intrigued Adjustment Ten Various Writers Studio Studio Movies Opinions Making Singular Testing Lot According Times Done Behind Movie Movies Them By The Time

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way. Charles Jencks

Beautiful Experience People Perception Beauty Other Way Objects Various Point Between Particular Cheekbones Particular Way Parts Makes Singular Up Sensations Experienced Converge Chin Them

The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky. Charles Murray

Problem Revolution Think Has-Been Some Writers Masculine Knots Tied Around Feminine Feminist Been Male Singular Get Which Using Default

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't. Chelsea Clinton

Life Try Engineer Ambition Would Had Toward Reverse Singular

The experience with 'The Knick' is a singular experience. That experience taught me a lot about acting and about being on camera for extended periods of time to try to create a character arc that travels. Chris Sullivan

Time Character Me Experience Try Arc About Periods Camera Singular Lot Taught Being Create Acting Travels Extended

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. Connie Nielsen

Happiness Life God Knowledge You Somebody Wish Say Would Seemed Something Excitement Like Concept Knows Answered Foreign Singular Different Mean Asked Certainly Many Different Things Specific Things

Singular Quotes

No more singular quotes