What are the facts? Again and again and again what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts! - Robert A Heinlein It is perhaps in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer. - Jeffrey Eugenides It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness. - Shannon Hale Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, ...

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. - Nora Ephron Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out. - Carlisle Floyd In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single. - Ryan Kwanten The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less. - Jonah Lehrer I think it can be fun to be single and date-like whe...

Any man for her had better be well-dressed, well-groomed, and well-hung, and if he couldn't get her off at least twice with his mouth, she wouldn't return his calls. Couldn't imagine why she was thirty-nine and still single. - Lauren Gallagher I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends. - Scotty Mccreery And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me? - Mark Mckinney 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. - Jeremy Piven I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that. - Charlize Theron

Nobody can define what exactly true love is. Some believe in it and many others don't. If somebody tries to define it, there will be many agreements and disagreements. Especially since nowadays marriages don't even last long anymore which encourages many to stay single. Faith and understanding in relationships is what many lack because it seems we've forgotten nothing and no one is perfect. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married. - Errol Flynn Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? - Carrie P Snow I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone. - Carol Vorderman

true love is felonious... You take someone's breath away... You rob them of the ability to utter a single word... You steal a heart. - Jodi Picoult At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence. - Nicole Krauss I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. - Paul Thomas Anderson It was clear to the one speaking that each of his words was being allowed to enter into his listener, who sat there quietly, openly, waiting' not a single word was disregarded or met with impatience; Vasudeva attached neither praise nor blame to what he heard but merely listened. - Hermann Hesse They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier. - Oscar Wilde How clever ar...

Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day! - Steve Maraboli By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. - Mikhail Bakunin But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule. - Haruki Murakami What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. - Chuck Palahniuk If I were an enemy, and I started bearing down on you like this"- he [Hector] ...

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. - Mark Twain I always thought old age would be a writer's best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory's gone, all the old fluency's disappeared. I don't write a single sentence without saying to myself, 'It's a lie!' So I know I was right. It's the best chance I've ever had. - Samuel Beckett A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted. - Albert Camus If words had weight, a sin...

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person. - Jodi Picoult The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me. - Jodi Picoult I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would. - Nicole Richie Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. - Mary Kay Ash I think that every single person should play sports. - Donovan Bailey When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person. - Red Barber I used to advertise my loyalty and I don...

I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me! - Andie Macdowell I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone. - Carol Vorderman

It is only in fiction that the protagonist moves in a single minded, one point focus, screening out everything that isn't related to the plot. Real people have to deal with the Myrtles of this world, who have sciatica and cold sores and want to tell you about them - Susan Wittig Albert By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded. - Russell Brand It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. - F Scott Fitzgerald From what I'd witnessed, Alona Dare was single minded, determined, and ruthless. If high school was a zoo, she was the lioness running the hunt on the hapless tourists who'd wandered into the wrong enclosure. - Stacey Kade

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink. - Iain Banks Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart. - L J Smith

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself! - Simone De Beauvoir Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true? - Neal Shusterman that's it -- hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become? a reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. it was more than that. i know it was more than that. - David Levithan For the entire course of evolution leading from our primitive mammalian forebears of a hundred million years ago to the single lineage that threaded its ...

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. - Edward Gibbon Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible. - Diana Ross

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be. - Candace Bushnell I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed. - Lukas Haas I'm single because I was born that way. - Mae West

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. - Hermann Hesse I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life. - Drew Barrymore Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. - Gael Garcia Bernal Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese. - Nick Cannon I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles. - Nikki Sixx Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those peop...

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. - Dido Armstrong I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something. - Hank Azaria In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone. - Sarah Dessen The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. - Nora Ephron

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone. - Sarah Dessen I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me. - Olivia Munn

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. - William Shakespeare You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. - Sloane Crosley Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. - Virginia Woolf When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me.. - James O Barr

I'm enjoying dating. I'm single, though, I'm not in a relationship. - Matt Czuchry I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single. - Paula Danziger I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life. - Kim Delaney I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. - Joel Edgerton I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking classes. Can you tell I'm single? - Will Estes When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow. - Jane Green I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be ...

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. - Kate Dicamillo I am single and not looking to be in a relationship. - Chris Evans When asked why I am single, my reply is simply; I consider myself a black pearl rare in my authenticity, adding a mysterious beauty to the select few who can recognize & even fewer who appreciate my worth. So instead of dating, I throw myself into working in the field. If my Boaz recognizes me amongst the black rocks...great! If not, the magnificence of my rarity will simply radiate onto those working the fields as well in the form of teaching, which is what I do. - Sanjo Jendayi