Thing One Quotes

93 quotes by 75 authors

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking… — Donna Tartt
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate… — Orson Welles
My dear fellow, the truth isnâ€™t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about… — Oscar Wilde
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a… — Benjamin Franklin
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it. — Michel Faber
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. — Anthony Burgess
Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone. — Patricia Briggs
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in… — Ezra Pound
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees. — Paul Valery
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship. — Terry Tempest Williams
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. — Michel Foucault
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. — Oscar Wilde
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. — Albert Camus
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at… — Oscar Wilde
The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing… — Sloane Crosley
But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose… — Dorothy L. Sayers
But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something. — Graham Greene
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it… — Djuna Barnes
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one… — Ezra Pound

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