Singles Quotes - Page 2

• Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

  Mae West

  Children, Husband, My Own

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• A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Sports, Boys

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.824, Wordsworth Editions

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• there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

  Iris Murdoch

  People, Way, Moral

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.38, Penguin

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• A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

  George Eliot

  Children, Thinking, Chance

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.91

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• I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

  Steve Case

  Opportunity, Swinging For The Fences, Focus

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• I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Girl, Thinking, Hands

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Solitude, Energy, Needs

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.22, Knopf

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• In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

  George Eliot

  Men, Age, Adam

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.166

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• I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Writing, People, Albums

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• After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

  Huey Lewis

  Sports, Fall, June

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• Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

  Huey Lewis

  Sports, Albums, Records

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• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

  Eric Bristow

  Winning, Australia, Legs

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.

  Uzo Aduba

  Mother, Fate, College

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• I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.

  Jon Snow

  Needs, Buying, Hell

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• Going out is such a hassle. The singles club scene where you sit down, talk, get to know each other, hang out-it's such a big ordeal.

  Brian Austin Green

  Going Out, Clubs, Scene

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• I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Track, Albums

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

  Fred Seibert

  Albums, Coins, Matter

  "Cartoon Hangover Creator Fred Seibert On How You Too Can Get Your Cartoon On The Internet". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Now you've got people who don't really have the skills, because technology hides it, going out and putting these crappy singles out, and because that's all there really is, people basically eat it like hamburgers. It's become very, very commercialized. Which wouldn't bother me as much if people actually had talent. When I listen to something and the first thing I notice is that it's been turned into crap, I shut it off and throw it out the window of my car. Like it's the most offensive thing to me.

  Corey Taylor

  Technology, Skills, Car

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

  Joe Dugan

  Yankees, Ruth, Dirt

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• Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

  Alex Kapranos

  Ideas, Feelings, Release

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

  Jilly Cooper

  Girl, People, Choices

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• A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

  Joe Perry

  People, Albums, Just Listen

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into being until mainly after the Second World War because record labels realized they'd be able to make a lot more money putting all the singles of an artist onto one album and selling the whole album as a kind of a concept.

  DJ Spooky

  War, Artist, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.

  Ian Curtis

  Years, Listening, Records

  Source: disordertc.wordpress.com

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• I know someone who works in a record shop where I live and I'll go in there and he'll play me "Have you heard this single?". Singles by, er the group called The Tights, so an obscure thing... and a group called, I think, er Bauhaus, a London group. That's one single. There's no one I completely like that I can say "Well I've got all this person's records. I think he's great" or "This group's records" it's just, again, odd things.

  Ian Curtis

  Thinking, Play, Groups

  Source: disordertc.wordpress.com

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