Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
My father's music was about revolution and changing the hearts and minds of people through love and the deliverance of everyone. We hope our brothers and sisters will follow our path and really start to consider ecology and utilizing material that benefits not only yourself but the people.
The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.
Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.
I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.
The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.
A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.
In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.
I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.
In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a lot of girlfriends but only a few very, very close ones.
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.
Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.
