Singular

Famous quotes containing the word singular:

    “Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly after, on the seashore, picking up the durable relics of perhaps older books, and putting them together again?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “though the fall cold

    surrounds our warm bed, and though
    by day we are singular and often lonely.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Panurge was of medium stature, neither too large, nor too small ... and subject by nature to a malady known at the time as “Money-deficiency,”Ma singular hardship; nevertheless, he had sixty-three ways of finding some for his needs, the most honorable and common of which was by a form of larceny practiced furtively.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)