Top 110 Singular Quotes

I’m someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood’s never really been the ultimate goal for me.

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

Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don’t bug him. He’s able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone’s like, ‘Oh my God! We love this.’

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

Don’t see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The ‘ghost’ is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I’m reading a lie.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

I’m an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you can’t even begin to touch that. A novel is a singular vision, and then a myriad of readers have their own experience of that.

It really has become the singular motivation in my life – to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don’t get it, but what do you do?

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.

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.

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

Probably every person is some mixture of wanting to feel a sense of commonality and shared experience with others but also wanting to feel completely singular and unique.

Following the example of Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger, I wanted to have a band, a sound and a personality, yet maintain a singular position of being able to control and motivate the flow of things.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.

I think that there’s a singular emotion that goes along with what the bands that we love mean to us. I feel like people feel represented by that in a way that you don’t get from saying, ‘Oh, I like this book’ or ‘I went to college here’ or ‘This is what my job is.’

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.

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.

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.

I see my whole 20s as a massive experiment. So were my teens. I think the problem is that we’re not encouraged to experiment; we’re encouraged to decide and choose, be singular and focused. You can’t be that until you experiment. You don’t know what’s going to work until you try it.

I guess there are people who are like, ‘Here’s one thing, and I’m gonna do it,’ but I can’t. I don’t have the capacity to have that singular focus. I need to try to get a lot of things going ’cause you never know what’s gonna hit.

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

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

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

I think the trick is to understand that universal isn’t defined by a singular way of being. We don’t have to somehow accept universal as being middle class, or white, or whatever it may be.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that’s something they want us to forget. What better way to remember than to highlight all of our differences as a singular people across the globe?

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

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

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.

‘Atlas Shrugged’ shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and devalue others quickly based on their principles and ideologies.

What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

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

In the theater, there’s an emphasis on the singular voice. You know, it’s your play. And in television, there’s so much institutional involvement. So you end up having to negotiate with a lot of people, and that provides a kind of wear and tear on the spirit.

There is no singular ‘reason’ why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

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.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‘I,’ meaning ‘we.’

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that’s when things get bent.

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

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.

One of the annoyances of working for The Guardian is that, obsessed as the organisation is with its digital and social media presence and its own sense of singular importance, editors would militantly try to edit your tweets.

No house was so poor as not to have its ‘family altar,’ its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A religious atmosphere pervades Tibet and gives it a singular sense of novelty.

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.

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.

I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely unfair.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

I’ve enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn’t about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I’m most interested in telling happen to be at.

Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.