Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buzz Osborne

One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

N. Robert Hammer

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

Timothy Radcliffe

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

Thomas Menino

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Heather Langenkamp

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

Stellan Skarsgard

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.

Rafe Spall

One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

Jeff Goodell

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

Claudia Black

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

Dalton Trumbo

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

Robert Staughton Lynd

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Tryon Edwards

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Justin Cronin

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

Rebecca Hall

One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.

Carlo Ratti

One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

Donald Trump

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Valerie Jarrett

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

Marlo Thomas

One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.

Richard Madden

One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.

Kesha Rogers

One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.

Norman Ralph Augustine

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Marat Safin

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

Taylor Mali

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

Dwight Gooden

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

Steve Allen

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Rudy Rucker

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Bruce Sterling

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Lev Yilmaz

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Theresa Breslin

One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and had similar life experiences.

Jonathan Carroll

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

Pauline Kael

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Hayden Christensen

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

Alison Gopnik

One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.

Joel Edgerton

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

Hector Ruiz

One of the things that has happened with technology is that it can only be helpful if it is useful, of course, but it can only be helpful too if it's accessible, and it can only be helpful if it's affordable.

Lil Mama

One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other... I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters.

Bernard Marcus

One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.

Mena Suvari

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

Chris Paul

One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.

Thomas Keating

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Pauline Marois

One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.

Nick Kroll

One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time - but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what's coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you're locked into it.

Larry Williams

One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.

Evgeny Morozov

One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.

Emil Cioran

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

Christopher Isherwood

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

Tanith Lee

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

Jacob Zuma

People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.