The One Quotes

If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day.

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do it. Everybody crosses over and it's just one big pool of stuff now.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the world, the poet is just one more reader.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

Can’t take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can’t give up. Ever.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were due at the church in an hour.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.