Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon.
A single day in my own shoe that is comfortable for me is better than 365 days in someone else's shoes that does not fit me at all.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job.
An hour crept by. I think it was an hour. I hardly recognized it. Bearing no resemblance to any of the numerous other hours of my acquaintance, I hardly recognized a single second of it.
Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.
The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.
What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
