Single Quotes

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.

There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

Trios aren't really geared for slide unless you're gonna play chords, or play that simple George Thorogood style. It gets pretty thin when you play single note lines.

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a single enemy. That just isn't very Heroic

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.

The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values.

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.

It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

I've asked Comedy Central, and they just say, "I don't know." It took Showtime two years to put my special on DVD. Owning your own content is the single most important thing in the world.

It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.

I always try and do everything I can to the best of my abilities, single aspect has to be perfect.

That same preface also contains a single line that really does sum everything up: 'Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.'

Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

A lot of times that I'm single is not for a lack of anyone being interested; it's me.

I don't understand why every single person in Congress isn't standing up and going, "He [Donald Trump] is in bed with Russia." And then they could just lock their arms and not let him in.

Ladies, please remember that every single picture you see in a magazine is airbrushed...we do not look like that. Love yourself!

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.

Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs.

I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

Every few years we disappear, Zoey. All our cells are replaced by others. Not a single bit of me is the same as when I was last in this room.

I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.

The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.