All Quotes

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
‐‐ Adam Rapp

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.
‐‐ Shawn Ryan

One of the tricky things about sort of larger, comic-book action movies is that the scale is so big that they have to save the world at the end of every movie, and so at the end of each of the films, either Chicago or New York end up getting obliterated.
‐‐ Graham Moore

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.
‐‐ Alice Walker

One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

One of the troubles with signings is that you are surrounded by children, and some of them have got colds.
‐‐ Tony Ross

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan's own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became.
‐‐ Jeff Grubb

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

One of the unique features of China is that, notwithstanding the fact that it has a population of 1.3 billion, around 92% regard themselves as Han Chinese. This is quite different from the world's other most populous countries, such as India, the U.S. and Indonesia, which are ethnically diverse.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
‐‐ Ferdinand Mount

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.
‐‐ Thomas Keating

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
‐‐ Larry Wall

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I'm not wearing make-up, if my hair's not done, if I'm walking around in pyjamas - I still put my fragrance on. I will brush my teeth and put on my perfume.
‐‐ Blake Lively

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.
‐‐ Cory Booker

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community.
‐‐ Mario J. Molina

One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about being Scottish. Whereas, if you are in London and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something to overcome or else you cannot really do that project.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
‐‐ Sam Levenson

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.
‐‐ Edie Falco

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.
‐‐ Ben Bass

One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
‐‐ Barbara Demick

One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.
‐‐ Pauline Marois

One of the ways we interact with other human beings and form social bonds is through touch, and probably most of us are not aware of the extreme importance of touch.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.
‐‐ L. Ron Hubbard

One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.
‐‐ James McAvoy

One of the wonderful things about Batman is that he is just a man. He doesn't have superpowers or extraordinary powers other than his tremendous intellect and physical prowess.
‐‐ Tracy Hickman

One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
‐‐ Art Linkletter

One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

One of the wonderful things about 'Jason Bourne' and that franchise is getting to work the same people sporadically and over the course of many years. I'm not so keen on having to get to know a whole group of people.
‐‐ Julia Stiles

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
‐‐ Jeremy Brett

One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.
‐‐ Tilda Swinton

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.
‐‐ Brian Greene

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.
‐‐ John Sexton

One of the worst days of my life was telling Dick Ebersol I was going to TNT.
‐‐ Charles Barkley

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
‐‐ Nassau William Senior