Quotes 13921 till 13940 of 25137.
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One day Lara went out and did not come back.... She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was afterwards mislaid.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 15 -
One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
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One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
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One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.
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One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees -And I found her bitter -And I reviled her.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
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One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
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One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
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One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.
Source: Death in the Clouds (1935) ch. 25 -
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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