Single Gentleman Quotes

#1. We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#2. Money was money, but I didn't want to waste any time away from Pidge.
She was happier than I'd ever seen her, and for the first time, I felt like a normal, whole human being instead of some broken, angry man.

Jamie McGuire

#3. It was a denim jacket. With this cover in place, Mouse hastily got his pants back in order. Instead of a teacher, as he'd expected, the new kid, Beckett Taylor, had bestowed dignity upon him.

Debra Anastasia

#4. There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.

Georgette Heyer

#5. If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Tom Hanks

#6. It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?
The world's a lot bigger than I am.

Liz Kessler

#7. Entomologists trap insects in their killing jars and then pin their corpses to cards, and no one utters a single squeak of protest. For that matter, let a gentleman hunt a tiger for its skin, and everyone applauds his courage. But to shoot a dragon for science? That, for some reason, is cruel.

Marie Brennan

#8. When God tells you to be brave, he will make it work. It won't be perfect. It won't be easy. But it will be your story and your best story.

Annie F. Downs

#9. The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.

James Joyce

#10. People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

Bob Dylan

#11. Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax..

John Irving

#12. I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.

Trey Anastasio

#13. I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.

Kristen Johnston

#14. A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.

Antonio Damasio

#15. Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king

Francis A. Schaeffer