All Quotes

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
‐‐ Jeff Raikes

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
‐‐ Matt Dillon

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.
‐‐ Robert Klein

One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.
‐‐ Maria Shriver

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.
‐‐ Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
‐‐ Nora Roberts

One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.
‐‐ Tory Burch

One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.
‐‐ Bill Murray

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.
‐‐ John Carpenter

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
‐‐ Nathaniel Rateliff

One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his 'little fat sausage.' But I always knew I had musical talent.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
‐‐ Criss Angel

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.
‐‐ James Callis

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better!
‐‐ Michelle Forbes

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
‐‐ Marc Webb

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
‐‐ Angus King

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, 'Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.' That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, 'Are you going to finish that sandwich?'
‐‐ Larry the Cable Guy

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

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.
‐‐ Buzz Osborne

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.
‐‐ Kristin Bauer van Straten

One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
‐‐ Randy Houser

One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my life, explore our relationship, think about the different versions of myself that I was with and without her. I also had the really strong wish to bring her to life for my children, who were born after she was gone.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
‐‐ Edwin Moses

One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.
‐‐ Robert T. Bakker

One of my major goals off the field is to conduct myself in a way that... parents are proud to say, 'Oh yeah, look, he wants to be like Sonny Bill Williams.'
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.
‐‐ DJ Khaled

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

One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

One of my missions was to teach.
‐‐ Paul Prudhomme

One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don't be afraid to trim your hair even if you're trying to grow it out, don't bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things.
‐‐ Julia Jones

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.
‐‐ Jessica Pare

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
‐‐ Carolyn Murphy

One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.
‐‐ Charles Kelley

One of my most persistent, long-term fantasy wishes is not that I could fly or become invisible, but that I could make sound recording be invented decades or even centuries earlier than it was, so I could hear what people in the 1830s or 1750s actually sounded like.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
‐‐ Ken Thompson

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.
‐‐ Georgina Chapman

One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.
‐‐ Nina Easton

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin