Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

In chaos, there is fertility.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Douglas Coupland

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Anne Robinson

I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

Cindy Gallop

Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

Eileen Caddy

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Aristotle

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Aristotle

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Not a single word. No one's ever spoken to me about it or why we couldn't do it.

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story

It will probably stretch out, because we'll be doing a single shift, through mid-May.

Cyrano de Bergerac

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Dan O'Brien

I always know where the scissors are.

Elena Dementieva

When you play you don't even think about the score. You're trying to win every single point. I was trying to stay focused.

Wally Buono

Too much is made of that single stat.

Ernest Bramah

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

Caroline Knapp

Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

Gloria Steinem

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Harry S Truman

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. The fantastically crowded nine months of 1945 taught me that a President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt I could let up for a single moment.

Marshall McLuhan

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

Oscar Wilde

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Publilius Syrus

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Jeremy Piven

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

Katie Couric

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

Kim Edwards

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Kristen Stewart

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Olivia Wilde

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.