All Quotes

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
‐‐ Mary Roach

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
‐‐ Callie Khouri

One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
‐‐ Byron Howard

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.
‐‐ Niall Ferguson

One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.
‐‐ Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.
‐‐ Joshua Waitzkin

One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
‐‐ Brad Falchuk

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
‐‐ Danny Glover

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
‐‐ Kate Bush

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.
‐‐ Marc Forster

One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.
‐‐ Molly Antopol

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.
‐‐ Rickie Fowler

One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a smile when some young lady, who has obviously not taken care of herself through diet or exercise, says admiringly, 'Ooh, I hope I look as good as you do when I'm your age!' Although it's intended to be complimentary, it's actually a back-hander.
‐‐ Joan Collins

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.
‐‐ Michael Johnson

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
‐‐ Michael Caine

One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.
‐‐ Craig McCracken

One of the main things I know about O.J. Simpson is that he is a compulsive talker. So if I were to ask him one question, I would get 45 minutes on the history of the case. It would be irrelevant what I would ask him - he would just start talking.
‐‐ Jeffrey Toobin

One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.
‐‐ Jesse Schell

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.
‐‐ Paul Kantner

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.
‐‐ Jane Welsh Carlyle

One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.
‐‐ Marco Beltrami

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

One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust

One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.
‐‐ James Rothman

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.
‐‐ Mia Kirshner

One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky if we recognize something as being new when it first appears. Usually I think we don't have that privilege. It's usually after the fact that we suddenly turn around and say, 'Wow, this thing is amazing.'
‐‐ Junot Diaz

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
‐‐ Melanie Klein

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
‐‐ Craig Brown

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
‐‐ Malcolm Muggeridge

One of the many pleasures of 'Versailles' is the way in which it seems to emanate not only from the vexed inner being of Marie Antoinette but from the interstices between what we imagine of her and what she was.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

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.
‐‐ Marlo Thomas

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.
‐‐ Jed S. Rakoff

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
‐‐ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
‐‐ Hugh Howey

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.
‐‐ Pauline Neville-Jones

One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is that it demands of its participants only that they observe a relatively few basic principles, among them honesty, the sanctity of contracts, and respect for private property.
‐‐ Thomas Woods