One Time Quotes - Page 27

• The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

  Joe Louis

  Champion, Heavyweights, Progress

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.

  Joni Mitchell

  Beautiful, Pain, Rocks

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• There was this one time in Vegas when I took four Victoria's Secret models and did one gram off each of their bodies within, like, 45 minutes. I declared myself King of Vegas and decided to remodel my hotel room with my bare hands to resemble King Louis XIV's bedroom at Versailles. Knocked down two entire walls, and later had four knuckle surgeries. Still wasn't as high as Rob Ford.

  Charlie Sheen

  Kings, Wall, Vegas

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• I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Book, Want

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• I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Found

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• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  Kate Smith

  Hockey, Ice Cream, Chocolate

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• I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

  Gayle Forman

  Inspiration, Fighting, Brave

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 06, 2015

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• I remember one time I tried to pity this fool. He told me his name was Jeff. He was married. He pulled out his wallet and showed me three pictures of his kids; Kelly, Robert, Brittany. Real cute kids. Don't get too close man. It's hard to pity a fool if you get too close.

  Mr. T

  Cute, Real, Kids

  "'I pity the fool': Mr T on jury duty" by Cheryl V. Jackson, www.pressreader.com. April 28, 2009.

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• The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Different, Depends

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.513, Vintage

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• Someone said one time, 'If your marriage isn't your priority, you're not married,' and I thought, for me that's so true. So as long as I keep her as a priority, everything else sort of seems to work. And when I don't keep it as a priority, it's ... Jenga.

  Keith Urban

  Long, Priorities, Married

  "Keith Urban's Number One! Country crooner reveals his marriage to Nicole Kidman is like a game of Jenga, saying 'life would fall apart without her keeping things 'balanced'" by Karishma Sarkari, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 03, 2015.

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• It's a time in my life that I'm glad it's behind me. I've had time to reflect on the whole thing. I want to talk about it one time and kind of lay it to rest. I'm ready to put it behind me. I've learned my lesson. I don't recommend the experience I had to anyone, really. It's not something that was fun. It's not a destination you would choose.

  Jayson Werth

  Fun, Jail, Lessons

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• I want to get out in the community and make sure everyone knows I'm not some renegade driver that's out there and irresponsible and reckless. I really think this is just a one-time thing. You live and learn. If you do the crime, you do the time, so to speak. With that said, I got a lot going for me. I got a great job, a great career, a great family. This is just a little bump in the road. My spirit's not broke. I'm not down and out by any means.

  Jayson Werth

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, Pain, Government

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• Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

  Mencius

  Evil, Negative, Goodness

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• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Swings, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Action, Justified, Humans

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

  Luke Perry

  School, Gun, Fake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

  Mort Walker

  Cartoon, Tables, Want

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• The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

  Leon Panetta

  Winning, Enemy, United States

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• One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Thinking, Pigs, Together

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• One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

  Charles Portis

  Struggle, Heart, Air

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• SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

  Larry Niven

  Cutting, One Direction, Way

  Concat interview, www.concatenation.org. 1988.

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• There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Girl, Hurt, Thinking

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• Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

  Clancy Brown

  Play, Guy, Just One

  "Clancy Brown Returns to Lex Luthor in 'Superman/Batman: Public Enemies'". CBR Interview, www.cbr.com. September 2, 2009.

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• I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Dream, Player, Games

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