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
One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'
‐‐ Nathan Lane
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
‐‐ Dwight Gooden
One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.
‐‐ Michael Gartner
One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck.
‐‐ Lindsay Fox
One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning of the blur between television and cinema, because the production values are so high and the storytelling is so compelling.
‐‐ Terence Winter
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
‐‐ Lord Salisbury
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.
‐‐ Dennis Ritchie
One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.
‐‐ Richard Corliss
One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'
‐‐ Jenny Offill
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
‐‐ Lorna Luft
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
‐‐ Margaret Mead
One of the only TV shows that I really love is 'Twin Peaks.' Kyle McLachlan plays Agent Dale Cooper, and I love Dale Cooper, so I'm in love with Kyle McLachlan. He could be my dad, so it's really weird.
‐‐ Jane Levy
One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
‐‐ John Frankenheimer
One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.
‐‐ Mildred S. Dresselhaus
One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
‐‐ Helen Gurley Brown
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
‐‐ Malcolm Muggeridge
One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
‐‐ Narendra Modi
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
‐‐ Plato
One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
‐‐ Bill Condon
One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
‐‐ Sanford I. Weill
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi
One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.
‐‐ Thomas G. Stemberg
One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.
‐‐ Liza Donnelly
One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.
‐‐ Steven Pinker
One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.
‐‐ Josh Charles
One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor
One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.
‐‐ Derek Blasberg
One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
‐‐ Edgar Ramirez
One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.
‐‐ Jason Segel
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
‐‐ John Green
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.
‐‐ Christian Bale
One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'
‐‐ David Cameron
One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.
‐‐ Nick Clooney
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
‐‐ Rachel Field
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
‐‐ Joseph Epstein
One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
‐‐ Steven Strogatz
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss
One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage