Singulars Quotes & Sayings

When I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was. — Tony Curtis

Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one. — Edward Young

Tech stocks were the cubic zirconium of the market. They looked good and were sexy, but they just were a way for the company selling them to make money. That's always going to be transient in terms of the stock market. What's real is that companies have to compete. Technology used well is a great tool to enable that if only because most companies dont use technologies well. — Mark Cuban

Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold. — Laozi

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective. — Jessie Redmon Fauset

Then he raised his voice in a prophet-like challenge that I knew would live with me forever: "Don't ever give up in freedom what we would never give up in persecution! — Nik Ripken

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character? — Eric Bana

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before. — Steve Vai

little too undistinguished, a little — Jeffery Deaver

The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, i.e., what is possible as being probable or necessary ... Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. — Aristotle.

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Popular versus literary - a false divide? — Kate Atkinson

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. — Michael Moore