Theatre-goer: [regarding Peter, assuming he is one of the orphans at the play] Looks like we got one of the better dressed ones!
Virginia Woolf: A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day her whole life.
Kitty: All my life I could do anything. I could do anything, really. Except the one thing I wanted.
I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.
The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.
I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day I'll release them all in one big package, but we'll see.
I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.
Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
The Angel said, 'Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong, and the one who is filthy still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness.
One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Out of the seven billion people sharing the planet with her, not one of them knew what was going through her head. Not one of them knew she was lost. Not one of them asked.
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again.
There are three types of people. Ones who live according to the past, ones who live leaning onto the future, and ones who live on the moment.
All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create. -from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly lonely, never alone.
