One Thing Quotes

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.

One thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend I think the worse that they get.

One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone.

Chris Christie has officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Christie said President Obama is 'shrinking the American pie.' And believe me, if there's one thing Christie hates, it's a small pie.

One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal.

Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

One thing I want to make clear: You never want to hide from your debts. It doesn't work.

We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.

I think for one thing, kids are a lot smarter now then we ever were.

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

Mommy. It's just the one thing you don't want to mess up.

One thing I think I've always felt about being in nature is that it's a very natural taste.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

One thing I've discovered is that people in the military have a sense of purpose. They feel useful, and everything is laid out in front of them. What their job is, is very clear.

Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'