Singular Quotes

258 quotes by 218 authors

Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir… — James Boswell
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an… — Gary Kemp
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep… — Herb Boyd
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves,… — Jean Genet
Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not… — George Nethercutt
The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it… — Kedar Joshi
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a… — Thomas B. Macaulay
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many… — Ambrose Bierce
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of… — Abraham Lincoln
I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if… — Leonardo da Vinci
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the… — Gilbert Parker
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it… — Anthony Trollope
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural… — Ernst Mayr
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when… — Jamake Highwater
I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed… — John Hancock
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always… — H P Lovecraft
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service, it… — Elizabeth Gilbert
It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the… — Alberto Manguel
As a Black woman filmmaker I feel thatâ€™s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning Iâ€™m interested in the… — Ava DuVernay

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