Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.
Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
I prefer that we sit down and craft a bill that addresses the many challenges we face, not only domestically, but as a world leader.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.
I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times that I can honestly say I was nervous. The first was when I knew Mel Brooks was in the audience, and the second was when Sid Caesar came.
The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.
You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.
For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.
If you saw me without concealer, you would see that I have raccoon eyes. And I think my forehead is too small. I am not quintessentially beautiful. I am photogenic, but that's only because I have learned how to make the best of what I've got from the make-up artists I have worked with.
I only wish I had more time for fund raising.
The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
I think compassion is the only way to approach any subject, especially if it's to do with physical appearance. I don't think it's really about tearing something apart.
I give myself limits - not only financial limits, but I also limit my method of expression, and from within those limits, I try to come up with something new and interesting.
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
Being the only girl, I feel a lot of pressure. I try not to think about it, but I definitely get in the gym a lot more frequently towards awards season. The guys always look great. They're both great looking and wear a good suit and a great tie and some awesome shoes and they're good to go. I'm like, 'I don't know what to do!'
The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
