Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one driven by emotional forces, not only cognitive ones.
I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.
I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.
From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
