The One Quotes

One thing about this game: It's really frustrating. In hockey, if you team's losing, you can start a fight. You can get your frustrations out.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone.

We all have one thing in common: Happy New Year! It's a clean slate.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

As a woman, you're not limited to being one thing or the other. You can be feminine and sexy and beautiful and hot and funny.

As a small child me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere!

There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don’t do it from a mental kind of place because then you’re just acting.

I watched 'It Happened One Night' and looked at online pictures and really liked Clark Gable's mustache and hair and the tuxedo. I just really liked that look.

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Presenting Saturday mornings has been a dream for a long time. And one day in September I am going to wake up very early and it will be a reality. I can't wait.

I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.

Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.