#single

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#answer #back #because #coming #get

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#face #fall #good #i #important

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#idea #infinity #labor #right #saves

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #commitment #contrast #difference #entire

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. ↗

— Diana Ross

#child #even #i #mother #single

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean? ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#business #could #dice #every #fantastic

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#love is #name #saying #silent #single

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image. ↗

— Michelangelo

#block #conception #contain #does #greatest

Today, there are many, many ways to entertain people in one single videogame. And the Internet has made it so easy for people to ask for clues. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#clues #easy #entertain #entertain people #internet