One Time Quotes - Page 28

• I'm always one time zone behind myself.

  Eric Bana

  Time Zones, Behinds, Zone

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• One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Thinking, Mirrors, Trying

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• Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

  Chris Crutcher

  Mean, Eye, School

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• It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
  It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

  Harry S. Truman

  Horse, Race, Important

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Mother, Brother, Home

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• The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.

  John Coltrane

  Play, Trying, Sound

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• There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!

  Wayne Dyer

  Important, Purpose, Affair

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• Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?

  Rumi

  Running, Dog, Wall

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Writing, Pleasure

  Interview with Tony Schwartz, www.uh.cz.

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• At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

  Richard MacDonald

  Pieces, Driven, Studios

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• The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Animal, Law

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• Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Care, Limits

  "Q&A: Shigeru Miyamoto Looks Into Nintendo's Future". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. December 13, 2011.

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• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, People, Want

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• I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.

  Mark Edward

  Real, Arrows, Goal

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• Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

  Paloma Faith

  Silly, People, Records

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• I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.

  George Carlin

  August, Hours, Fine

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• Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

  Dorothy Gambrell

  Needs, Time Travel, Conventions

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• Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

  Dick Taylor

  Errors, Battle, Events

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• The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moon, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1872). “Works”

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• It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, Outsiders, Feels

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• Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

  Robert Goulet

  Years, Champion, Planes

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• Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

  Gary Snyder

  Guitar, Names, People

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• Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland.

  Terry Venables

  Play, Switzerland, Euro

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• One time a reporter asked me what my worst quality was. I looked him in the eyes then punched him in the face. I kind of felt bad about it later, but he didn't need to be rude.

  Zach Braff

  Eye, Rude, Quality

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