When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...
For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.
Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.
One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
It just takes one serious thought to change a person, either to one he always wanted to be or into one he never wished to be.
There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.
If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.
Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.
I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.
A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
