Quotes of: The-only-thing Keyword

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.

Cate Blanchett

Papillon: We're something, aren't we? The only animals that shove things up their ass for survival.

Papillon

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.

Leo Durocher

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Winston Churchill

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Alain Prost

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

Emma Donoghue

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Sarah Caldwell

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

Leo Ornstein

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

Darren Aronofsky

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

Matthias Schoenaerts

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Russell Baker

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sally Field

Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him "You are the ...

Call Me by Your Name

Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction a...

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

- Is it their fault if they think that it’s good to work? - No, said Colin, it’s not their fault. It’s because they’ve been told : work is sacred, it’s good, it’s nice, it’s what counts before anything, and only those who work have the ...

L'Écume des jours

Mowaljarlai rarely answered questions with an abstract explanation; he always told a story. His was not a fragmented world, divided into the convenient disciplinary languages and jargon that seem to be required for the understanding of concepts and p...

Storymen

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seem...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you...

Only the Good Spy Young