Singular Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (S) Quotes

"Oh, I`m very fortunate to be doing what I`m doing. Again, I just had a crazy singular focus of what I wanted to do and that was live in Nashville, make records and tour. It wasn`t any more specific than that. It wasn`t how many records, how many songs, or how high in the charts. And awards, they never entered into it. I just had this vague overall plan. It just started coming together. Every day I look around and say, `God, this is amazing.`"

- Keith Urban

I`m going to stop making movies if they end the cinema experience. If there`s a last film that`s released only theatrically, it`ll have my name on it. This is life or death to me. If you tell audiences there`s no difference between a theatrical experience and a DVD, then that`s it, game`s over, and that whole art form is going to go away slowly. Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

- M. Night Shyamalan

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

- M. Night Shyamalan

(On Mixed Martial Arts as depicted in `Never Back Down`) I actually get a little upset when people say that it`s not a sport. It`s the evolution of karate, kung fu, ju jitsu, judo, muay-thai - all these sports in their singular form, coming together. Most of these are Olympic sports.

- Sean Faris

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.

- Rick Perry

We went to this huge, icecream picture palace to see a Bollywood movie. Here we were, with 2,000 Indians watching a film in Hindi, and there was the lowest possible comedy and then incredible drama and tragedy and then break out in songs. And it was three-and-a-half hours! We thought we had suddenly learnt Hindi, because we understood everything! (Laughter) We thought it was incredible. How involved the audience were. How uncool they were - how their coolness had been ripped aside and how they were united in this singular sharing of the story. The thrill of thinking, `Could we ever do that in the West? Could we ever get past that cerebral cool and perceived cool.` It required this idea of comic-tragedy. Could you make those switches? Fine in Shakespeare - low comedy and then you die in five minutes.

- Baz Luhrmann

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

- James Thurber

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.

- Joan Chen

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

- David Soul

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.

- John Milius

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. Something in me--probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism--stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.

- Pedro Almodóvar

(Talking about William Shatner): "He`s just a wonderful actor who created a singular character. No one could have done Kirk the way Bill did. His energy and his determination, that`s Bill. And that`s also Captain Kirk."

- George Takei

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

- Kinky Friedman

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.

- Rupert Holmes

It is a great honor for me to continue as captain of the U.S. Fed Cup team. I am committed to working with our country`s top players to field the best team possible and with one singular purpose '” winning the Fed Cup in 2006.

- Zina Garrison

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

- Ajay Gupta

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.

- Al Bricker

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.

- Al Fasoldt

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

- Alan Rodger

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

- Ali Fabbro

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.

- Amanda Silverman

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.

- Andrew Popper

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

- Andy Rothman

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

- Jean Baudrillard