Quotes of: One-half Keyword

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Chronicles, Vol. 1

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

Dave Barry

Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.

Douglas Rushkoff

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

Olivia Wilde

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

Robert Kagan

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

Edmund White

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

Jerry Saltz

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

Lisa See

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

The Apology

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

Killosophy

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.

A Room of One's Own

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.

Sarah Canary

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

The Magus

When one hand itches, I scratch it with the other. Let this be a lesson in love.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

There’s more salt in the ocean than in one bag of chips. Let this be a lesson in love.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

My love can only occupy one person at a time. I try for that person to not be me.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart.

The One That Got Away

Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where we'd end.

One Breath One Bullet

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

For One More Day

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

Less Than One: Selected Essays