All Quotes

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!
‐‐ Dante Hall

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
‐‐ John Cale

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
‐‐ Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.
‐‐ Graham Phillips

The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, 'I never want to have to get a job,' then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.
‐‐ Pete Wentz

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron

The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.
‐‐ Maria Monk

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
‐‐ John T. Flynn

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
‐‐ Imelda Marcos

The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
‐‐ Jaycie Phelps

The only risk of failure is promotion.
‐‐ Scott Adams

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.
‐‐ Brian Higgins

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

The only routine with me is no routine at all.
‐‐ Jackie Kennedy

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.
‐‐ Bill Lee

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
‐‐ John Mortimer

The only rule I have is to be as authentic and spontaneous as possible. I would never wear something I don't feel comfortable in.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
‐‐ Paris Hilton

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
‐‐ Dana Snyder

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
‐‐ James Thurber

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
‐‐ Faye Wattleton

The only safe thing is to take a chance.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
‐‐ David Talbot

The only sci-fi movie that I've ever been offered that, had circumstances been different, I would have definitely done, was 'Avatar.' And I literally couldn't do it because of my schedule. But listening to James Cameron talk about 'Avatar' was so fascinating. Because he literally invented the world in his mind - and it literally existed.
‐‐ Matt Damon

The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.
‐‐ Thomas Bangalter

The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key role in our health.
‐‐ Jorge Cruise

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
‐‐ E. B. White

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
‐‐ Pat Buckley

The only shame is to have none.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.
‐‐ Bruno Latour

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
‐‐ Olivier Theyskens

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
‐‐ Tammy Blanchard

The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'
‐‐ Lin-Manuel Miranda

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
‐‐ Mark Spitz

The only sin is mediocrity.
‐‐ Martha Graham

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
‐‐ Herbert Read