No One Quotes
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.
I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.
A lot of people live in a property that will one day be part of their pension, and that is true for me too. I have an investment I can sell with ease.
…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.
If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.
I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
Stand-up comedy is still a very male-dominated world. You look at a set list and maybe there's one woman on there.
I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.
When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.
I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.
But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobodys got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.
I think one thing that is extremely important is to connect with people in order to be successful and bring the people in so that they become your partners.
Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.
One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.
If I have pizza or Taco Bell one day, I'll have home-cooked meals the next. I try to listen to what my body craves.
Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.
I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.
I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.
