Quotes About Singular

Each place is itself only, and nowhere repeated

Never had he seen a man who looked so lonely, so far from the run of human life with its fellowship and warmth. To see him here, in this place of fiesta, only underlined the truth of him: he was the last. There was no other.

The enmeshing of polysemy with grammar is also visible in one of the ways that Americans and Britons are divided by their common language. When a product gives its name to an employer, the name is singular in the United States (The Globe is expanding its comics section) but plural in the United Kingdom (The Guardian are giving you the chance to win books).

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

You are either a success, a comprehensive, singular, over-all good thing, or its opposite, a failure, a comprehensive, singular, irredeemably bad thing. The words imply no alternative and no middle ground. However, in a world as complex as ours, such generalizations (really, such failure to differentiate) are a sign of naive, unsophisticated or even malevolent analysis.

There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.

plural is generally formed from the singular by the addition of s or es.

Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown; … there is only one thing and that, what seems to be a plurality, is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception (the Indian MAYA); the same illusion is produced in a gallery of mirrors …

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before.

You can never repeat certain things. It's only once in a lifetime.

With documentaries, what's beautiful about them is that you capture something unique in a shot, something that will never repeat itself.

You can't replicate Seamless or OpenTable for another industry.

I do not represent any product or any collection.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

Babymetal's music is kind of - no one else creates this kind of music. When Babymetal first started, we wanted to give the impression of like, 'What the heck?!'

This time is different" is the motto of uniqueness bias.

If you build like this, you build only one thing. By definition, that thing is one of a kind. To put that in the language of tailors, it is bespoke:

With the decline or disappearance of other powers, the priest, even though appearing so intimately integrated into the life of society, has become a more singular and unclassifiable being than any of those old magicians the ancient world used to keep locked up like sacred animals in the depths of its temples, existing in the intimacy of the gods alone.

I am an individual, specific, not generic.

As a side benefit, this cognitive shift to a different-from-usual mode of thinking results in a marvelous state of being, a highly focused, singularly attentive, deeply engaging, wordless, timeless, productive, and mentally restorative state.

Sweet maid, you perform a singular feat With the archer's bow. You pierce hearts not with arrows, But with strands of your beauty.

I am not like any other wrestler.

I'm a once in a lifetime professional wrestler. I'm something that people are never going to get to see again.