All Quotes

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.
‐‐ Rowan Williams

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.
‐‐ John C. Mather

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
‐‐ Christine Gregoire

One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
‐‐ Elizabeth Thornton

One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
‐‐ Zoe McLellan

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
‐‐ Julius Erving

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.
‐‐ John Lescroart

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.
‐‐ Eve Ensler

One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw.
‐‐ Rory MacLean

One of the most rewarding aspects of my research has been the opportunity to study the potential applications of a new catalyst.
‐‐ Robert H. Grubbs

One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
‐‐ L. Lionel Kendrick

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.
‐‐ Mitch Landrieu

One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.'
‐‐ Robert Fogel

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
‐‐ Mark Twain

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
‐‐ Jean-Luc Godard

One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.
‐‐ Dave deBronkart

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
‐‐ Bradley Whitford

One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.
‐‐ Dave Goldberg

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.
‐‐ Vince Flynn

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.
‐‐ Ariana Grande

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
‐‐ E. B. White

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.
‐‐ Peter Coyote

One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist.
‐‐ Alex Steffen

One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
‐‐ Samantha Harvey

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
‐‐ Karl A. Menninger

One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.
‐‐ Kit Bond

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
‐‐ Nana Mouskouri

One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

One of the mysteries of hep B immunization is that vaccinating only 'high risk' groups, which was the original public health strategy, did not bring down rates of infection.
‐‐ Eula Biss

One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.
‐‐ Jennifer Grant

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

One of the nice things about a second book is that your readers already have so much of the introductions on board, they don't have to put all their attention into figuring out the world and can more easily let that play out as a background to the other things you want to do.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
‐‐ David Duchovny

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.
‐‐ Sarah Lacy

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
‐‐ Lorne Michaels

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.
‐‐ James Patterson

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.
‐‐ Moby

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
‐‐ Steve Allen

One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.
‐‐ Catherine Ryan Hyde

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
‐‐ Rudy Rucker

One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.
‐‐ Lee Trevino

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt