I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.
Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.
Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
The red line must be drawn on Iran's nuclear enrichment program because these enrichment facilities are the only nuclear installations that we can definitely see and credibly target.
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.
My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you.
This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.
