Been Single For So Long Quotes

#1. He'd been single for so long, and the more I knew him, the more I saw the loneliness at his core. I felt like I brought him to life. He

Augusten Burroughs

#2. There were so many things Sebastian and I had to work out: we'd both been single for so long that blending our lives together wasn't going to be easy.
I'd promised Sebastian we'd find a way. He deserved to be loved for everything he was. And for whatever crazy reason he had, he loved me, too.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#3. Free-ranging single men are like a house that has been empty too long. There must be something fishy about the house, the woman thinks. Up for sale for six months and it's still vacant.

Herman Koch

#4. The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#5. Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

Sean O Faolain

#6. I don't watch cricket much but I admire Sachin Tendulkar. I like the way he has conducted himself over the years. He has been such a huge star for so long but has not had a single controversy against his name.

Vijender Singh

#7. They had been a couple for so long that everyone thought of them as Tom-and-Jenny, a single unit.

L.J.Smith

#8. Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then
that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Ally Carter

#9. I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers and black holes, and my single visual hallucination of a little pink man and a pink ox on the floor of my bedroom.

Siri Hustvedt

#10. The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.

Roger Altman

#11. I don't diet per se, I don't weigh myself, I don't look at a number - I haven't done that in probably twenty-five years. I just try to do one of the green drinks nearly every single day, and it's been a long time since I've been sick or anything, so I think it really works.

Jillian Barberie

#12. If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

Miles Davis

#13. That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to every single corner of the earth and our Homo sapiens population to more than 6 billion - until no place is untouched by despoliation.

Kirkpatrick Sale

#14. I've been single so long that if I hug a brother, he'll get pregnant!

Tranea Prosser

#15. Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.

Steven Soderbergh

#16. This month past. They had been engaged for six months (I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time - had no inherited experience to teach them as it were), and of course, as long as there was a

Joseph Conrad

#17. I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

Brendan Coyle

#18. How could I possibly gone this long without the touch of another human being? I've been living my life like a zombie

Theresa Alan

#19. Tell me if you ever cared,
if a single thought
for me was spared.
Tell me when you lie in bed,
do you think of something
I once said.
Tell me if you hurt at all,
when someone says
my name with yours.
It may have been so long ago,
but I would give
the world to know.

Lang Leav

#20. I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

Lela Rose

#21. High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#22. I had a boyfriend for a long time, and I've never really been single as an adult.

Erin Heatherton

#23. There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

Thomas Hoving

#24. It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

Edward Gibbon

#25. I don't think my Dad was ready for me to come back home, either. I think it had been a long time since he was forced to make conversation at the kitchen table over coffee, especially with the person who had been canceling out his vote in every single election since the mid-eighties.

Laurie Notaro

#26. I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.

Carolyn Murphy

#27. The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

Sam Yagan

#28. I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

Cherie Lunghi

#29. they constituted the list of names her mother and

Joanne Fluke

#30. It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

Calvin Trillin

#31. I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

Larry Clark

#32. Catey, happiness doesn't just happen to us, especially when we've been living without it for so long. Happiness is a choice we make every single day. We wake up and decide that no matter what happens we will find a way to obtain the very thing our heart needs to flourish.

Lisa N. Paul

#33. I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

L.M. Montgomery

#34. It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.

Lewis Thomas

#35. Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better.

William J. Clinton