All Quotes

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
‐‐ David Lipsky

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
‐‐ Peter Bogdanovich

One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
‐‐ Samantha Harvey

One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.
‐‐ Max Levchin

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective.
‐‐ Paul Farmer

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.
‐‐ Gene Sperling

One of the things we joke about in the FPS development is it's so hard to get the player to actually bother to look at all the cool stuff you've been doing. You spend a lot of time making really cool things, and usually the player isn't looking where you want them to.
‐‐ John Carmack

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
‐‐ Ted Lange

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
‐‐ Sam Altman

One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether it's with the breast cancer, we said we're gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it's worth it.
‐‐ Bill Rancic

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
‐‐ C. Everett Koop

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.
‐‐ Edward Lazear

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia?
‐‐ Tim Kaine

One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
‐‐ Dave Gibbons

One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.
‐‐ Bernard Marcus

One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
‐‐ Brian Eno

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.
‐‐ Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't usually mess with is happy.
‐‐ Steve Alford

One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.
‐‐ Justin Cronin

One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
‐‐ Dave Gibbons

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters.
‐‐ Gina Bellman

One of the things you have to get used to, working on a TV show, is filming out of sync.
‐‐ Gina Bellman

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.
‐‐ Tracy Letts

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
‐‐ Mena Suvari

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
‐‐ Chuck Noll

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
‐‐ Dale Archer

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.
‐‐ Dick Costolo

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.
‐‐ Eric Shanteau

One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.
‐‐ Chris Paul

One of the things you'll discover... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
‐‐ Brian Eno

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.
‐‐ Jason Katims

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
‐‐ Hank Haney

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow