I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something I really enjoyed. Everyone around me wanted to do the 'roll bounce' thing, but I was pretty much only interested in going fast.
It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.
This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.
Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.
I never had the opportunity to pick up a golf club in school, and I think it is a cool thing for kids. Getting clubs in kids' hands is the only way to grow this game.
My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.
It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.
It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.
You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.
I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
