One Was Quotes

#1. Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? No one was going to go for that. It's easy to just steal an idea because it's very safe.

Julie Delpy

#2. I have two friends named Matt. They're both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same section of Iraq. They both worked with the same Iraqi translator. And yet, if you talk to them, their stories couldn't be more different, because one was there in 2006. One was there in 2008.

Phil Klay

#3. The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator - I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws. I've has this understanding of fiction for a very, very long time but I've also had this thing where I've idolized the male action heroes because that's what I watched with my dad.

Katee Sackhoff

#4. So the storm passed and every one was happy.

Kate Chopin

#5. You've known this for a while, Ryan. I'm sure of it. At the first mention of poetry, you knew this one was about you. You had to. Though I'm sure you must have thought, This can't be why I'm on the tapes. It wasn't a big deal.

Jay Asher

#6. they had become almost used to these coincidences that could not possibly be coincidences, to the feeling that each one was the click of some great turning cog.

Stephen King

#7. I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

Jack Osbourne

#8. Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Alan Bennett

#9. I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.

Toby Stephens

#10. Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.

Joan Cusack

#11. In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

Yakov Smirnoff

#12. Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted.

Tommy Cooper

#13. It is before you - smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, 'Come and find out.' This one was almost featureless, as if still in the

Joseph Conrad

#14. I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If you moved your hips and the girls screamed, you were getting it right. Who wouldn't want to be like Elvis or Jim Morrison!

Ricky Martin

#15. That was the thing about cats; even the scruffiest one was convinced of its innate superiority.

Linda Howard

#16. How silently the world revolved, when one was brooding, and alone.

Eleanor Catton

#17. Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.

David Maraniss

#18. They smiled too much, were quick to compliment and support, but behind the stretched lips and soft words was a judgment. No one was ever good enough - at least not until they were dead. The dead were exemplary.

Michael J. Sullivan

#19. It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn't matter because one was like another and there were no nights to separate them because she never slept any more.

Sylvia Plath

#20. My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#21. But birthdays are random ... Defining one's life by the day one was cut from an umbilical cord is completely arbitrary.

Neal Shusterman

#22. The Secret Service agents had been trained to think of every possible scenario...but nowhere in any training or manual was it ever mentioned that the width of the door on Air Force One was just a few inches too narrow for a casket.

Gerald Blaine

#23. I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

Daniel Clowes

#24. ...he couldn't help but think that nearly anything could be used as a weapon, if one was in a weaponry mood.

Lemony Snicket

#25. Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#26. I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

Toyin Odutola

#27. I can cope with a smack in the face, or at least I should be able to after the number I have had. This one was just run-of-the-mill for me.

Richard Gough

#28. Everyone who has changed the course of human history, every last one was able to do so only because he was ready for his destiny. That's true of Moses and the Buddha, Napoleon and Bismarck. The wave that carries us, the star that guides us - we cannot choose it.

Hermann Hesse

#29. Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

John Lasseter

#30. No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

Joey Lauren Adams

#31. No one was dead, but her son would not call just to call. She'd had to enter intimate terms with this new understanding in her life, like an illness.

Boris Fishman

#32. Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

Ann Patchett

#33. I swear I've spent half my life hiding behind a couch and the other half wondering why no one was paying attention to me. On

Sarah Hepola

#34. President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

Dennis Miller

#35. I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail.

Dax Shepard

#36. You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [ ... ] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

Terry Pratchett

#37. The guest list, if there had been one, was a little like a census.

John Steinbeck

#38. This was typical of my parents: in their minds, no one was just an asshole. There was always something wrong with people other than just sucking: they had socialization disorders, or borderline personality syndrome, or whatever.

John Green

#39. In his dreams Jaime always had two hands; one was made of gold, but it worked just like the other.

George R R Martin

#40. Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.

Jeffrey Jones

#41. What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt ... He'd lost the ability to be an asshole. Now he was smitten, and it felt both tremendous and scary.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#42. It wasn't even one of those stoic pimples that goes quietly when you pop it; this one was cystic and painful and had roots that seemed to extend into my brain.

Mindy Kaling

#43. He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way. The

Ken Follett

#44. There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

Thomm Quackenbush

#45. I wished for Derek Michen to kiss my face off (that one was when I was nine years old and was absolutely positive he was the love of my life. He did kiss me two weeks later, but then he also kissed Jessica, David, Megan, Rhonda, and Robert. Derek turned out to be a bit of a whore).

T.J. Klune

#46. Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Alan Bennett

#47. A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

A.A. Gill

#48. Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

Anna Friel

#49. But no one was prouder of me or happier for me than Branwell, and I think he would not have been prouder or happier if he had won himself. And I don't know anyone anywhere who has a friend like that.

E.L. Konigsburg

#50. As much as choice could sometimes be a burden, not having one was far worse.

Jana Deleon

#51. One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.

Meghan O'Rourke

#52. Thank God no one was bouncing.'
'You can say that again, Ass Whisperer.'
'Thank God no one was bouncing,' Cam said, and she started to drift off to sleep.

Wendy Wunder

#53. Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason - in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe's life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.

J.R. Ward

#54. It wasn't his job to keep tabs on mob princesses, but this one was sort of a hobby.

Genevieve Dewey

#55. Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.

Walter Isaacson

#56. In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.

Mohsin Hamid

#57. My brother had never been the most rational of agents, but this one was the ill zinger.

Junot Diaz

#58. When I first starting writing, and no one was paying me, in order to feel like I had a real job, I would get out of bed, put on a jacket and tie every morning, and sit down at my desk.

Graham Moore

#59. I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

Daniel Ek

#60. I wondered whether the life that was right for one was ever right for two! I

Willa Cather

#61. In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.

Louis C.K.

#62. And now here he was, completely alone. He found this situation both euphoric (he could scratch himself and no one was looking; no one was judging him--no one!) and unsettling. (What if he choked?)

Cynthia Hand

#63. That was high school in a nutshell. No one was where they belonged. They were all on their way to someplace else.

Sarah Addison Allen

#64. Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

Charlaine Harris

#65. Now was the time for now. Now was one of those rare and precious moments with which one was gifted from time to time. That was all it was. A moment. But it was one to be enjoyed to the full while it lasted and treasured for a lifetime after it was over.

Mary Balogh

#66. Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp ... " She looked at Zoe. "Which one was it?"
That boy in Colorado," Zoe said. "You turned him into a jackalope."
Ah, yes." Artemis nodded, satisfied. "I enjoy making jackalopes ...

Rick Riordan

#67. Exactly. They dumped gasoline all over the gym and set fire to it. When no one was there training, luckily," Olympia says. "How can you be so sure it was them?" "They called me at home to let me know.

Pierdomenico Baccalario

#68. And then I thought: perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so no one was a greater father than I.

Nicole Krauss

#69. Nac Mac Feegle were always looking for a fight, in a cheerful sort of way, and when they had no one to fight they fought one another, and if one was all by himself he'd kick his own nose just to keep in practice. Technically

Terry Pratchett

#70. I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.

Patti Smith

#71. She found that she did not mind losing the previous moment, for this one was just as lovely.

Leslye Walton

#72. You think our mam likes you better than me?" challenged whichever one was the other. (Don't blame me. I've lost track too.)

John Flanagan

#73. They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.

Joseph O'Connor

#74. One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

Satish Kumar

#75. I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

Katherine Anne Porter

#76. Douglas's fridge was a stainless-steel masterpiece. I'm not that into appliances or anything, but this one was nice and probably cost more than my last apartment. I had the strange desire to hug it every time I came into the kitchen.

Lish McBride

#77. Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

Sam Huntington

#78. To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.

Rose Schneiderman

#79. Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.

Paul Theroux

#80. Disapproval flashed across John's face. I wondered whether no one was supposed to touch me while he was in uniform, either.

Jennifer Echols

#81. To be very honest with you, there were two big factors: One was that we were initially coming out in that week before Thanksgiving where both Twilight 3D and Happy Feet 2 are coming out.

Shawn Anthony Levy

#82. Although helpful, a disembodied hand on the Bugatti's steering wheel was a bit creepy, especially because this one was hairy and had No More Pies tattooed on the back.

Jasper Fforde

#83. There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.

E.L. Doctorow

#84. It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's.

Terry Pratchett

#85. No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.

Wael Ghonim

#86. Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.

Larry Coker

#87. He spoke loudly, declaring his ambitions and opinions with a frankness that might be called hubristic (if one was skeptical) or dauntless (if one was not).

Eleanor Catton

#88. People didn't understand how she found comfort in numbers. They soothed her because they were logical and constant. One plus one was always two, not three or four depending on their mood.

Nadia Lee

#89. What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.

Andrea Camilleri

#90. Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

Fritz Leiber

#91. No. I grew a beard because no one was around to teach us boys how to shave." .

Penny Reid

#92. As eyebrows went, Nell's lest one was particularly vocal.

Kylie Scott

#93. I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months before. Alas, though I warned him, it still happened. Thankfully no one was harmed. I also read Tarot cards, mostly for fun.

Franny Armstrong

#94. No one was in better position than I to know how easily shyness gets misread for arrogance or coldness or indifference.

Josh Lanyon

#95. In the ancient tales, to which each Viking aspired, strenght was the only virtue, iron the only currency that mattered. Loki with his cunning, whereby a weaker man might outdo a stronger one, was an anathema to these folk.

Mark Lawrence

#96. She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Virginia Woolf

#97. one was present, interacting in any affirmative way with the people who filled those prisons.

Piper Kerman

#98. No one was more liberal than anyone else anywhere anyway. It was only that here, in Willesden, there was just not enough of any one thing to gang up against any other thing and send it running to the cellars while windows were smashed.

Zadie Smith

#99. The "18/40/60" rule to happiness:
At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them.
By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think.
By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.

Daniel Amen

#100. Although everyone knew it as freedom from the laws of Islam, no one was quite sure what else westernization was good for.

Orhan Pamuk