One Thing Quotes - Page 22

• Well, one thing you can say for masturbation... you certainly don't have to look your best.

  Mart Crowley

  Sex, Looks, Masturbation

  Mart Crowley (2003). “The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band [and Its Sequel] The Men from the Boys”, p.10, Taylor & Francis

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• One thing for sure - a sheep is not a creature of the air.

  Graham Chapman

  Sheep, Air, Creatures

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• The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

  Larry Kramer

  Media, America, People

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• If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Ifs, I Can

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• I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

  D. W. Griffith

  Girl, Men, People

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• It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Religious, Speech, Charming

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• High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

  Michael Keaton

  Fun, Thinking, Brain

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• One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

  John Grisham

  Watches, Soapbox, Want

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• There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

  Elia Kazan

  Actors, Broadway

  Elia Kazan (2014). “The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan”, p.73, Vintage

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• One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

  Mike Singletary

  Decision, Want, Ifs

  "49ers take different path, fire play caller Raye" by David White, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2010.

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• My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

  Victoria Justice

  Family, Successful, Numbers

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• If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

  Julian Baggini

  Fun, Two, Cynical

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

  Bar Refaeli

  Phones, Cells, Three

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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Block, Home

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• I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

  Alexa Chung

  Bored, Ifs

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cooking, Brain, Rooms

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• New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

  Lawrence Block

  New York, Dirty, Home

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• Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

  Edward Burns

  Dad, Cop, Wells

  Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.

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• It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.

  Linwood Barclay

  Doors, Library, Different

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• Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

  Paul Bremer

  Years, Trying, Trouble

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• One thing I won't be doing on a weekend is shopping. I just don't like it, and I haven't bought an article of clothing for a very long time. I usually just take wardrobe from shows I'm on. It's much easier.

  Scott Baio

  Weekend, Shopping, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  Dan Chaon

  Different, Three, Hops

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• A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Beautiful, Stories, Proof

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• It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.

  Will Allison

  Jobs, Home, Men

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• Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.

  Patrick Carney

  Depressing, Cities, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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