We didn't slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.
The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.
There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.
I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.
I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.
I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.
Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
You only get better by playing.
The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.
It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
