Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Martin

One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.

Daniel Boone

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

Hoda Kotb

One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.

Laila Robins

One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!

Paul Klee

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Robert M. Pirsig

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Wayne Knight

One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

Maxim Gorky

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Helen Hayes

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Ian Mcewan

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Morrie Schwartz

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

Nelson A. Miles

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

Stephen Cambone

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Miguel de Cervantes

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

William Jennings Bryan

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

Sam Mendes

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

Pat Oliphant

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

Sarah Vowell

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Sara Zarr

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

Carly Rae Jepsen

One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.

Ron Rash

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

Marta

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

Galen Rowell

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

Alice Morse Earle

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

Jason Ritter

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'

Jonah Hill

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

Cobie Smulders

One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.

Danny Glover

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

Walter Pater

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Lee Myung-bak

One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.

Suzanne Collins

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

Alphonso Jackson

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

Pierre Salinger

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

Kimberly Willis Holt

One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

Lennie James

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

Clive Barker

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Amos Oz

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

Isaac Hanson

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

Rob Manuel

One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the tools. You start off with simple objects; axes, torches, helmets and swords. With a little time and experimentation, you move to switches, complex machines, mine carts, glass.

Thomas Gibson

One of the things that I'd like to get back to that I did as a younger actor was to work on, you know, a rep season for a summer where you did two or three Shakespeares, and you'd do a couple of either new plays or classic plays, and you did a different one almost every night.

Louis Navellier

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

Carl Hiaasen

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Chris Hughes

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Mariah Carey

People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'

Lee Scott

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

Billy Joe Saunders

People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.