One Of Those Quotes

#1. He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

Pat Conroy

#2. He fell for an eighteen-year old girl with one of those deepdown spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going.

Toni Morrison

#3. Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

C.S. Lewis

#4. No, Damien Stark is just one of those dark, quiet types. He's like an iceberg, Texas. The deep parts are well hidden and what you do see is hard and a little bit cold.

J. Kenner

#5. I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I'm like one of those 'American Idol' contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful.

Kenneth Choi

#6. I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances.

Colin Powell

#7. This is isn't going to become one of those creepy situations where you show up at all hours of the night to watch me sleep, is it? he asks playfully.

Cynthia Hand

#8. It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.

Jim Butcher

#9. When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

Beck

#10. Please tell me you're not chastising me over my lack of
manners right now. Because if I thought that were true, I just might get
one of those stupid shrimp forks your mother insisted we have and jam it
into your eye.

Christine Bell

#11. He was one of those people in New York who was purported to "know everybody". "Knowing everybody" is a phrase that denotes not having many relations with people but having relations with a few people generally thought to be significant and powerful.

Siri Hustvedt

#12. I think if people stick with 'The Leftovers,' it's a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that - and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show!

Carrie Coon

#13. Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.

David Letterman

#14. Have you ever sat around while someone held their breath? For a while, it doesn't bother you, but eventually you start holding your breath with them, willing them to breathe. it's one of those automatic reflexes. (Mercy)

Patricia Briggs

#15. Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.

Maurice Blanchot

#16. I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

Steven Rodney McQueen

#17. It (friendship) has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gives value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

#18. I'm with someone who makes me incredibly happy. I'm not one of those people who subscribes to the idea that marriage takes the romance out of things. I think it gets better, it deepens. I love being a wife. We have a blast.

Emily Blunt

#19. I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

Questlove

#20. What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.

Sidney Blumenthal

#21. It was one of those country parties where it felt as if no matter where you went you were always being watched by either a live horse or a dead stag, until you found yourself lingering by the washbasin after a piss just to escape this weirdly oppressive ungulate panopticon.

Ned Beauman

#22. Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

Morrissey

#23. Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

Elizabeth Scott

#24. Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

John Krasinski

#25. Lies, my dear boy, are found out immediately, because they are of two sorts. There are lies that have short legs, and lies that have long noses. Your lie, as it happens, is one of those that have a long nose.

Carlo Collodi

#26. Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

Wayne Dyer

#27. My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.

Lindsey Shaw

#28. I'm one of those folks that look and say the Old Testament laid out clearly the path for Christ to come, but when He came, every scholar at that time missed it.

James Lankford

#29. It was one of those pure feelings that do not interfere with life, that are cultivated because they are rare, and whose loss would afflict more than their passion rejoices.

Flaubert

#30. I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.

Corbin Bleu

#31. I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#32. He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them.

Stefan Zweig

#33. Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

#34. I hate to say this, but I'm one of those people with an extremely fast metabolism. I eat, eat, eat, and yet I can't seem to gain any weight.

Jasmine Tookes

#35. I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

Charlie Puth

#36. I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.

Karlie Kloss

#37. The fair Volumnia, being one of those sprightly girls who cannot long continue silent without imminent peril of seizure by the dragon Boredom, soon indicates the approach of that monster with a series of undisguisable yawns. Finding

Charles Dickens

#38. I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.

Jennifer Garner

#39. The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

Georg Simmel

#40. When it came to hatred, Brodd Tenways had a bottomless supply. He was one of those bastards who can't even breathe quietly, ugly as incest and always delighted to push it in your face, leering from the shadows like the village pervert at a passing milkmaid.

Joe Abercrombie

#41. I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

Brad Pitt

#42. In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the majority of people hustling. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

Kid Cudi

#43. Mayday used to be a distress signal, a long time ago, in one of those wars we studied in high school.

Margaret Atwood

#44. The pause that followed felt very important. It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever.

Megan Abbott

#45. Who's Jessie?"
"My Yugo"
"You have a name for your Yugo? Please don't tell me you're one of those guys who also names his dick."
"Unfortunately, I've yet to find the perfect name for mine, so it's in this netherworld of nameless identity right now.

Rachel Cohn

#46. A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#47. There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

Michael Showalter

#48. I'm not one of those guys that focuses much on individual stats because my main goal is to be at my best physically and mentally.

Giovani Bernard

#49. As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

Alastair Campbell

#50. I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

Jill Clayburgh

#51. When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

Honore De Balzac

#52. She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

David Nicholls

#53. But it was one of those moments when neither seemed to speak deliberately, when an indwelling voice in each called to the other across unsounded depths of feeling.

Edith Wharton

#54. She turned out to be one of those irritating people who get up to leave and then stand in the doorway chattering away.

M.C. Beaton

#55. I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

Che Guevara

#56. I am one of those people who is never satisfied, ... When I was a little kid, I made a spaceship out of a refrigerator box, and I was pissed off that it wouldn't fly. Couldn't be happy with it. It was pretty cool, too.

Howie Day

#57. And, at that moment, it dawned on me. I was one of those people. The people that I detested. The jobless people that you see all of the time. The people that make you wonder.

Scott Hildreth

#58. I perceive , Sir , you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason

Thomas Love Peacock

#59. Sometimes I think I know her. This is not one of those times. This is not 3:33.

Jarod Kintz

#60. ["Mansome"] was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.

Morgan Spurlock

#61. I know what every colored woman in this country is doing ... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.

Toni Morrison

#62. Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

Anna Quindlen

#63. Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.

Ferran Adria

#64. I've always been - despite my deep desire to become one of those writers who actually felt the immense weight of suffering - a fairly optimistic person.

Alida Nugent

#65. Her life had been mapped out before she was even born, but destiny wasn't to blame. She was just one of those people who never have to decide which way to go in life. She just went where it led, no questions asked.

Walt Cessna

#66. Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

Todd McFarlane

#67. So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary)
Is this one of those questions that if I don't answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#68. Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best.

Robin S. Sharma

#69. This was like being in one of those National Geographic magazines. We were among the natives now.

Brandi Salazar

#70. I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

Seth Rogen

#71. The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

Melina Marchetta

#72. There are some masters from whom you can learn good things. Streets are one of those masters!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

Deepak Chopra

#74. Are there situations where you get stupid - where you disengage your intelligence? Next time you're in one of those situations, get yourself into a growth mindset - think about learning and improvement, not judgment - and hook it back up.

Carol S. Dweck

#75. The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

Gabriel Byrne

#76. I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice ... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

Frank McCourt

#77. The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.

Christopher Hitchens

#78. Are you a murderer?"
"That depends, are you one of those animal activist[s] that believe meat is murder?

Tammy Blackwell

#79. The thing I adore about Mariah the most is she's probably the most nurturing person I've ever met, like one of those spirits that walks into the room and wants to make sure that everybody's okay and taken care of. For someone to be at her status but be so concerned about others is really cool.

Nick Cannon

#80. The windowpane was freezing, but I was pressing myself against it anyway, like one of those dazzled little kids at the aquarium, the ones that look like they want to melt through the glass, like they're about to swoon from an overdose of beauty.

Alyson Foster

#81. Jose was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.

Alex Ferguson

#82. I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

Macaulay Culkin

#83. It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

Markus Zusak

#84. You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast in bed or I'll kill all of them.

Zach Braff

#85. Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams - it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.

Alexander McCall Smith

#86. It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

Macaulay Culkin

#87. He's a monster. I think of him as one of those pitiful things that are born in hospitals from time to time. They feed it, and keep it warm, but they don't put it on the machines and it dies. Lecter is the same way in his head, but he looks normal and nobody could tell.

Thomas Harris

#88. She just holds my gaze until I reach out and take her hand. I press her fingers to my skin and tingles shoot up my arm, hitting me right in the chest. She's going to turn me into one of those guys. One of those guys who blubber about their feelings and that terrifies me ...

Allie Brennan

#89. I prefer my lovers with a dick."
We are both in luck, because I just so happen to have one of those growing in my pants as we speak.

Aly Martinez

#90. It's like I'm trapped in one of those omniscient dreams where you just watch yourself do stupid shit, yelling at yourself about how stupid it is, and your dream-self just keeps doing what it's doing anyway.

Kendare Blake

#91. I'm not one of those fellows that is just going to have a psuedo-middling relationship.

Russell Crowe

#92. I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

Yann Martel

#93. There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

Demian Bichir

#94. If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I'm not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I've been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the '80s, yo! Word.

Reid Scott

#95. I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.

Foster Friess

#96. Corinne is one of those people for whom life is just the space between crises.

Jodi Picoult

#97. Then why are you here?" Emma demanded. "Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met the other night, you felt a spark? Sorry, but I don't date trees."
"I am not a tree." Iarlath looked angry, his bark peeling slightly.

Cassandra Clare

#98. She was one of those women who clearly hadn't accepted she wasn't nineteen anymore,

Raven St. Pierre

#99. There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.

Fred Armisen

#100. I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

Shelley Duvall