Quotes of: The-one-thing Keyword

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Pico Iyer

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Alan Greenspan

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Charles Kennedy

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

Ruth Duccini

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Samuel Smiles

One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

Julianna Margulies

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

James Wolcott

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

Robert Wilson

Think of many things, do only one.

Traditional

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

The Portrait of a Lady

The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

Harold Prince

That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

William Gibson

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Norma Shearer

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

Paul Feig

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

Saint Ignatius

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Leo Rosten

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

Fred W. Friendly

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

Jackie Cooper

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bernie Mac