Ones Quotes

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.