All Quotes

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

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
‐‐ Richard Bach

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.
‐‐ David Whyte

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
‐‐ Michael Scheuer

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
‐‐ Sarah Lacy

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

One of the great joys of being a slip fielder who takes a catch is you are able to contribute to the bowler's success. Yes, you are putting yourself in the firing line if you stuff it up, but you must want to be in that position to make a difference, and recognise sometimes that you might make mistakes. There are no easy catches in the slips.
‐‐ Rahul Dravid

One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.
‐‐ John Benjamin Hickey

One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise to the top and find an audience, and you don't have to impress one idiosyncratic commissioning editor.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
‐‐ Peter McWilliams

One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.
‐‐ Eli Roth

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
‐‐ Stephen Daldry

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.
‐‐ Robin Hayes

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
‐‐ Nancy Horan

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
‐‐ Bob Richards

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.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
‐‐ Mary Pickford

One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.
‐‐ Amy Ryan

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
‐‐ Brit Marling

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
‐‐ Joseph O'Neill

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.
‐‐ Bill Nelson

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be.
‐‐ Jacques Monod

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.
‐‐ Michael Flanders

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.
‐‐ Meir Kahane

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.
‐‐ Alice Walton

One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
‐‐ Sam Harris

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
‐‐ Margaret Wertheim

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
‐‐ Barack Obama

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

One of the great things about a celebrity pro-am is that you get to play along with the very best professional golfers in the world.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.
‐‐ Dylan Walsh

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
‐‐ Michael Shannon

One of the great things about America is we should not judge until we know the facts.
‐‐ Stanley A. McChrystal

One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.
‐‐ Sundar Pichai

One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.
‐‐ Allison Mack

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
‐‐ James Purefoy

One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.
‐‐ Graham Norton

One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express.
‐‐ John Astin

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.
‐‐ Jerry Greenfield

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
‐‐ David Duchovny

One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.
‐‐ Peter Hook

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.
‐‐ Sprague Grayden

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.
‐‐ Larry Ellison

One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.
‐‐ Drew Houston

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
‐‐ M. Ward

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
‐‐ Hilary Swank

One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley.
‐‐ Dick Costolo

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.
‐‐ Marc Guggenheim

One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets - people who've come back from the war and done these terrible things that they don't want to think about, or can't say what they did because they signed the Official Secrets Act.
‐‐ Sara Sheridan

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.
‐‐ Matt Groening

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.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.
‐‐ Rodney Brooks

One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
‐‐ Rachel Nichols

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.
‐‐ Alan Bean

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

One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the same time.
‐‐ Alan Rosenberg

One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, 'I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I'll be able to see the cells within the living animal.'
‐‐ Martin Chalfie

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.
‐‐ John Darnielle

One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.
‐‐ Holly Black

One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
‐‐ Zack de la Rocha