The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.
The only thing that’s going to free Huey is gun powder.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.
Every film is a crapshoot. It’s a mystery when a movie comes together. I’ve never been able to figure it out. I don’t know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there’s something about a character that you really want to experience.
The only thing you can worry about is what you can control.
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
Prior to Elephant I’d taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there’s not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn’t really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
Where is women’s sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
If I am playing a game, I want to give my best, and that’s the only thing that helps me sleep peacefully at night.
The only thing is, with me – this may sound weird – there are a lot of R&B singers from that era that I actually don’t know. Like, I never grew up on Boyz II Men.
When you’re rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I’ve talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.
But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.
Bacon’s not the only thing that’s cured by hanging from a string.
Let’s face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that’s different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I’m going to be a better chef.
The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn’t going to happen.
If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don’t like about him is the way he did his hair.
The only thing I think of is the next hit record.
The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
I can fight, but that’s the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I’m not very good.
I don’t run after money or fame. The only thing I have always wished is to be a classical singer.
I didn’t get to go to prom; I was filming a death scene on my prom night. But I got to go to all the homecomings, and even the winter formals I got to go to, but the only thing I missed was the prom, but everything else was great.
The future doesn’t exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we’re the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
Nothing’s holding me back. If I’m held back, the only thing holding me back was me.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
I’ve worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like ‘Ooooohh.’ It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay.
Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That’s the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest administrators who should be held accountable by the government. Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.
When top scientists and psychologists talk about what’s important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
People don’t understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can’t see the joy of your previous life.
The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
The only thing that matters is what God wants, what the fans think, and what the UFC asks for.
But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it’s me doing it.
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That’s how ‘Beyond This Dark House’ appeared.
Ultimately, I’m not the most prolific person, but I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
If something can be proven to work, we should try it… Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something’s worth trying to do that, then I’ll certainly be in the market for it.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.
The only thing that’s in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.
I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.
What I like about Americans is if it’s good music, that’s the only thing that matters.
The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don’t drink around me.
The only thing I didn’t like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set.
Collaboration to me is… my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it’s just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.
I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
I’m not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn’t bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
The only thing that’s better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it’s cool. It’s worth it.
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I’m very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.
The only thing that comes naturally to me is my energy.
I’m terrified of flying and have tried everything from prescription drugs to booze and herbal remedies. The only thing that works is Valium. I don’t know why I’m so frightened – I think it’s from seeing my mum freak out when I was young.
