All Quotes

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
‐‐ Leland Stanford

The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could be out to dinner or having a drink at a bar, and someone could just give me a violin, and I've got to be ready to play.
‐‐ Charlie Siem

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.
‐‐ Adrian Belew

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.
‐‐ Paul Schrader

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
‐‐ Jan Garbarek

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.
‐‐ James Nathan Miller

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

The only failure is not to try.
‐‐ George Clooney

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
‐‐ George Eliot

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
‐‐ Abhishek Bachchan

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
‐‐ John Locke

The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.
‐‐ Jude Law

The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
‐‐ Nigel Kneale

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
‐‐ Red Grange

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
‐‐ Dorothy Thompson

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.
‐‐ Emmanuel Jal

The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
‐‐ Karen McDougal

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
‐‐ Michel De Certeau

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
‐‐ Herbert Croly

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
‐‐ Kathleen Winsor

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.
‐‐ Ben Wheatley

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.
‐‐ Regina Brett

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
‐‐ Finley Peter Dunne

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
‐‐ Herodotus

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
‐‐ Channing Pollock

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
‐‐ John Lydon

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.
‐‐ Robert Goulet

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.
‐‐ Pete Wentz

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

The only greatness for man is immortality.
‐‐ James Dean

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
‐‐ Gerrit Smith

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
‐‐ Jack Valenti

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.
‐‐ Thomas Lennon

The only guest star I really wanted to get but didn't was Bruce Springsteen.
‐‐ Mike Scully

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
‐‐ Rebecca Harding Davis