Ones Quotes

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.