One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.
‐‐ Tad Williams
One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly.
‐‐ Michael Dickinson
One of the fastest ways to build the clean energy economy is to allow more people to benefit from it.
‐‐ Billy Parish
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister
One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch
One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately claim special status by faith membership.
‐‐ Michael Shermer
One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.
‐‐ Cy Young
One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
‐‐ Andre Balazs
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
‐‐ Clive Barnes
One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.
‐‐ Robert Wilson
One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.
‐‐ Annie Jacobsen
One of the few things we can actually control in life is what we put in our bodies. I found that very empowering.
‐‐ Sara Rue
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood
One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'
‐‐ Julie Burchill
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
‐‐ Manny Farber
One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell
One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
‐‐ Damian Marley
One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi
One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.
‐‐ Layne Staley
One of the first bills I helped passed was the Shore Protection Fund, which provides a stable source of funding for shore protection, something very important for Monmouth County and the entire Jersey Shore.
‐‐ Joseph M. Kyrillos
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
‐‐ Samuel Butler
One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton
One of the first comic things you do is imitate.
‐‐ Robert Mankoff
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy
One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
‐‐ Jay Parini
One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.
‐‐ Ellsworth Kelly
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
‐‐ Arthur Henderson
One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.
‐‐ Chris Parnell
One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.
‐‐ Rachel Lambert Mellon
One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.
‐‐ Johnny Rivers
One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
‐‐ Roger Wicker
One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.
‐‐ Tom Colicchio
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
‐‐ John Thorn
One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.
‐‐ John Frankenheimer
One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
‐‐ Eden Riegel
One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
‐‐ Chellie Pingree
One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.
‐‐ Peter Jackson
One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: 'The Terminator' and 'Die Hard' and, of course, all of the 'Star Wars' movies.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler
One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.
‐‐ Bruce Lipton
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
‐‐ Sam Claflin
One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding to were references to the Old Testament. It was not that I had to adapt the lyrics to the sound. Reggae and the Old Testament are bound up together. There wasn't anything that I had to do.
‐‐ Matisyahu
One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.
‐‐ Nicki Minaj
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.
‐‐ Michael Korda
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
‐‐ Herbert Simon
One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
‐‐ Randa Abdel-Fattah
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
‐‐ Franz Kafka