I’m a realist,” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.
How will I go on without her?! The answer was very simple: one day at a time.
There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.
Is he following? Can you have a flaming gay moment or something and check?" "Why do I have to be the flaming gay one?
One Day World Peace Will Be More Than One's Imagination...It Will Be Humanity's Fact.
Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.
Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.
And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.