Single Quotes
Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.
Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me?
I've been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.
When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.
Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.
My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.
Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.
The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.
The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.
People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'
Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.
It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.
If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.
I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.
Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.
Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.
In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.
As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.
I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.
Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.
Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.
I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora
Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.
One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.
I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.
In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.