Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
I knew medicine only by its absence - specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner.
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
I'm not the only one who has ever lost somebody; I'm not the only one who was missing somebody. That's what I love about country music, that's what I love about songwriters, is being able to put out those words, those feelings.
The only thing the defense has to do is take care of the client and see to it that they attack every weak spot on the prosecution's case. It's up to the judge to make sure that they don't pull any fast ones.
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.
Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.
The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.
She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
