All Quotes

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
‐‐ Scott McNealy

The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.
‐‐ Jeff Garlin

The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There's a lot of supposed tween comedy on TV that isn't particularly funny, but it's got a lot of laugh track. And I go, 'Please don't watch that. Please just watch something that's actually funny.'
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.'
‐‐ Chandra Wilson

The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.
‐‐ Ari Graynor

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
‐‐ Christian Bale

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
‐‐ Merle Haggard

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

The only thing that I travel with is an Ole Henriksen facial cleanser, something that my skin is used to avoid using different soaps at different hotels all the time, and Givenchy Man Pro-Energizing Massive Moisturizer. I usually keep my hair pretty short, too, so I don't require a lot of stuff.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
‐‐ Helen Garner

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
‐‐ Howard Fast

The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.
‐‐ Gian Carlo Menotti

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
‐‐ Leon Redbone

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
‐‐ Craig Bruce

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
‐‐ Carlos Castaneda

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
‐‐ Chung Mong-joon

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.
‐‐ Russell Smith

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
‐‐ Sebastian Junger

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.
‐‐ Antony Garrett Lisi

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
‐‐ Maya Lin

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

The only thing that matters is the theater!
‐‐ Lily Rabe

The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
‐‐ Earl Weaver

The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket.
‐‐ Christopher Moore

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
‐‐ Sally Field

The only thing that matters with my kids are them graduating and playing well, and I try to do my dangedest to get them to play well.
‐‐ Kirby Smart

The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.
‐‐ Eric Bana

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.
‐‐ Alonzo Church

The only thing that my fans expect out of me is for it to be natural and not forced. They know me really well, and the moment I start to force something and pretend to be something I'm not, they're gonna pick up on it. They'll literally call me out on Twitter, like, 'Charlie, this is not you.'
‐‐ Charlie Puth

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
‐‐ Harry Golden

The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
‐‐ Sam Harris

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.
‐‐ Jean-Marc Ayrault

The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.
‐‐ Richie Benaud

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
‐‐ Terrence Howard

The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.
‐‐ David J. C. MacKay

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

The only thing that remained consistent over the years was my ability and enthusiasm to tell the story.
‐‐ Herb Trimpe

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.
‐‐ Julie Klausner

The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.
‐‐ Richard Marx

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
‐‐ Bryce Courtenay

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
‐‐ Joan Baez

The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it's cool. It's worth it.
‐‐ Tinashe

The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.
‐‐ Al Unser

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.
‐‐ James Vincent McMorrow

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
‐‐ H. Rap Brown