All Quotes

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.
‐‐ Matthew Tobin Anderson

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
‐‐ George McGovern

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'
‐‐ Shane Smith

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.
‐‐ Eula Biss

One of the shows I would very much love to be a part of is 'Mad Men' - walking around that office.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
‐‐ Edmund White

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.
‐‐ Geoff Davis

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.
‐‐ Jessica Jackley

One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.
‐‐ Ted Allen

One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.
‐‐ Cheryl James

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
‐‐ Martin Filler

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.
‐‐ Scott Weiss

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?
‐‐ Bill Gates

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.
‐‐ Bee Wilson

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
‐‐ Barry Humphries

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.
‐‐ Brian Greene

One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.
‐‐ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.
‐‐ Courtney Thorne-Smith

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
‐‐ Finley Peter Dunne

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison

One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
‐‐ Gautam Adani

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
‐‐ James Sinegal

One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
‐‐ Jim Lee

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.
‐‐ Roberto Unger

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
‐‐ Albert Bushnell Hart

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
‐‐ John W. Foster

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.
‐‐ Tom Paulin

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.
‐‐ Lesley Nicol

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
‐‐ C. L. R. James

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
‐‐ Pauline Kael

One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.
‐‐ Kathy Reichs

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey