Finding The One Quotes - Page 2

• In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

  Donald Johanson

  Unique, Discovery, Order

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Thinking, Names, Faults

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• It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Winning, Risk, Different

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• Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  Years, Numbers, Issues

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• We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!

  Peter Hook

  Thinking, Lucky, Three

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• Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit.

  Joe Grant

  Color, Pieces, Texture

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• Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

  America Ferrera

  Feelings, Share, Educated

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

  W. H. Auden

  People, Trying, Identity

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("One of the Family"), (p. 369), 1973.

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• Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

  William Wycherley

  Mistress, Next, Pleasure

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• I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

  Joshua Leonard

  Worry, Done, Next

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• The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

  Peter King

  Country, New York, People

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• To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

  Edward Zwick

  Children, Heart, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world
  The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.

  Tim Robbins

  Finding Love, World, May

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• Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Phrases, Way

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.

  David Carradine

  Book, New Relationship, Thinking

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• The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

  Richard Branson

  Inspiring, World, You Only Live Once

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• We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

  Arthur Eddington

  Learning, Math, Thinking

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Alan L. Mackay, (p. 79), 1991.

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• There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doubt, Literature, Suspicion

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.116, Penguin

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• If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

  Eleanor Clift

  Cutting, Thinking, Years

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• I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Wall, Thinking, Experts

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• One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

  James Payn

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  Fanny Burney

  Player, Mind, Alive

  Fanny Burney (1857). “Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.93

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• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  Ace Frehley

  Wife, Trying, Band

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• There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

  Judith Light

  Fighting, Rights, Two

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• The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

  Tim Cahill

  Fashion, Art, Stories

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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