Top 78 Singleton Quotes
#1. Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.
Robert J. Flaherty
#2. I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
Gary Carter
#3. All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
Daisy Donovan
#4. In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.
Jane Leavy
#5. Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-
Michael Palmer
#6. The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father
Denzel Washington
#7. Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
John Green
#8. You could make it a singleton too, but friends don't let friends create singletons.
Robert Nystrom
#9. The problem with chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to the point where nothing is real.
John Green
#10. It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.
John Singleton
#11. I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things.
John Singleton
#12. You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened.
J. Richard Singleton
#13. If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
John Green
#14. Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.
George Singleton
#15. I really took filmmaking very seriously ... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
John Singleton
#17. What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
John Green
#18. No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.
J. Richard Singleton
#19. I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.
John Singleton
#21. I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.
George Singleton
#23. Going out? It seems so twentieth century. Do people really still do such a thing?
Dave Franklin
#24. Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.
John Singleton
#25. I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.
John Singleton
#27. You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.
George Singleton
#28. [Truman] didn't want to fight the guy, whatever he was - alien, vampyr or douchebag.
J. Richard Singleton
#29. And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
John Green
#30. I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.
Henry Earl Singleton
#31. Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.
John Singleton
#32. The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.
John Singleton
#33. Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is, chucking kangaroo heads on the barbie as they read their awful bush poetry.
Dave Franklin
#34. But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.
Helen Fielding
#35. When it comes to men, women will insist that a lunge in their direction is not always welcome, and yet they cannot forgive a man who does not even attempt a sexual pursuit. Strange creatures, aren't they?
Dave Franklin
#36. I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.
John Singleton Copley
#37. Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses we reflected on aspects of business. Our own conclusion was that the key was cash flow.
Henry Earl Singleton
#39. 'Baby Boy' is one of my favourite films, and Tyrese keeps telling everybody we're going to make a sequel. I mean, we have a story right now but we don't know where we're going to take it.
John Singleton
#40. Later film shoots' casting calls would advertise that they're "fun shoots" and a "good way to get exposure" - but working in entertainment is not entertaining, even though it is not what's traditionally thought of as "work." You know what's fun, indie filmmakers? Being paid for your time.
J. Richard Singleton
#41. I'd rather just slip on my halo of flies and stay here, if you don't mind.
Dave Franklin
#42. Good hitters don't become intimidated. They become infuriated.
Ken Singleton
#43. Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather see injected with bleach.
Dave Franklin
#44. I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the flexibility to what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any times.
Henry Earl Singleton
#47. I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight.
George Singleton
#49. Here I was with the guy I maybe-loved, relaxing by the ocean with salty crisp breezes and blue-gray sea curving into a for-ever horizon. We even had background music to add to the romantic ambience. And except for the "can't kiss because he's my brother" thing, this was the perfect romantic moment.
Linda Joy Singleton
#50. I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
John Singleton
#51. A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.
Ken Singleton
#52. 18890 kilometers I travelled one year. One year without boundaries. One year opened like a white canvas. I walked into the desert of life, picked a direction and went.
D.W. Singleton
#53. I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.
John Singleton
#55. One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.
George Singleton
#58. I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything!
Zutty Singleton
#59. The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don't get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it's sunny, we stand in the sun. When it's cold, we stand in the cold.
J. Richard Singleton
#60. We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.
John Singleton
#63. Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
George Singleton
#64. Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all.
George Singleton
#65. I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.
Henry Earl Singleton
#66. Animals are very spiritual creatures and have evolved to a higher plane than humans. Cola was honored with the position of Comforter. Usually that work goes to cats or ferrets...
Linda Joy Singleton
#68. Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.
John Singleton
#70. Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things.
Dave Franklin
#71. I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.
George Singleton
#74. It's good to buy a large company with fine businesses when the price is beaten down over worry about one problem.
Henry Earl Singleton
#75. Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
George Singleton
#76. I guess we all travel through life in a haze of sorts. A fog. The people we only meet in the fog we allow ourselves to lose because it's not our fault. It's the fog's. The people we latch onto - they become our friends. It was my friendship with Ethan that took me out of the fog.
J. Richard Singleton
#77. I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.
John Singleton
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