Singular Quotes

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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my… — Roland Barthes
Saw #â€Ž Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending. — M. Night Shyamalan
I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a… — Michelangelo
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell
Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural. — Erwin Schrodinger
[God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also… — Pope Dionysius
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular… — Greg McKeown
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. — Shaquille O'Neal
The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates… — Adrian Rogers
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence… — John Perry Barlow
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of… — Samuel George Morton
When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People… — Peter Senge
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked… — David Wright
Think of a single word. We'll use soul as our example. How do you define soul? Is it the same definition I use? Can it… — Chris Kluwe
Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a… — Richard Wagner
Jews are a singular confusion â€” difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain… — Israel Shenker
A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies… — Henry David Thoreau
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They donâ€™t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation… — E E Cummings

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