Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.
Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I had such a laugh, every single day. I look like such a feral child in it.
How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.
The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.
Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself.
Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…
Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.
There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.
...and thus he found his single source of joy in the society of other people: frightening the girls with his penis.
Find a way to change your attitude for the better and your life will change for the better with little effort from you.
One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.
