All Quotes

One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics.
‐‐ Tobin Bell

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.
‐‐ George Benson

One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.
‐‐ Ron Kind

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
‐‐ Peter Higgs

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
‐‐ Maria Menounos

One of the first things I ever did was 'Critical Condition.' That was before 'Full House.' It was a Richard Pryor movie. I didn't have a giant part, but I was in it throughout. I loved the heck out of it.
‐‐ Bob Saget

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
‐‐ Ed Harris

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.
‐‐ John Glenn

One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
‐‐ Raf Simons

One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'The Iceman Cometh' in the Village when I was a kid, before I ever became a newspaperman, and realizing that the world I knew could also be the subject of some amazing stuff.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.
‐‐ Patricia Rae

One of the first things the PT government did when it took office in 2003, after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the presidency, was to create a 'dirty list' of hundreds of companies and individual employers who were investigated by labor prosecutors and found to be using slaves.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.
‐‐ Louis Stokes

One of the first times I came to New York was for a modeling and talent competition, IMTA, which I won. I came with a group, like a modeling school from Fresno.
‐‐ Christopher Gorham

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'
‐‐ Chance The Rapper

One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction, and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing.
‐‐ Martin Zweig

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.
‐‐ Jason Priestley

One of the fun things about playing live is watching the audience sing the songs back to us.
‐‐ Tom Dumont

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

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.'
‐‐ Jason Ritter

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.
‐‐ Michiel Huisman

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
‐‐ Lewis Mumford

One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.
‐‐ Archibald Hill

One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.
‐‐ Craig Venter

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
‐‐ Janez Drnovsek

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.
‐‐ Paul Epworth

One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and the reason we named the company after it is that it was pretty revolutionary for its time.
‐‐ Dave Morris

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.
‐‐ Anna Lindh

One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.
‐‐ Joseph Rykwert

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.
‐‐ George Takei

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.
‐‐ Jenny Holzer

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
‐‐ Tammy Bruce

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.
‐‐ The Edge

One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.
‐‐ Juan Enriquez

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.
‐‐ Annie Besant

One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.
‐‐ Theodore Zeldin

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool.
‐‐ Dave Lombardo

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
‐‐ Kingsley Amis

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
‐‐ Margaret Geller

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
‐‐ Joshua Foer