All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
Andrea Corr

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
Paul Auster

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
Tim Roth

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.
David Coverdale

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
Nat King Cole

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.
Danielle Steel

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.
Jerry Bruckheimer

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.
Hassan Nasrallah

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
Peter Wright

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.
Richard Gere

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
Milton Babbitt

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher

I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.
James Lipton

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
Publilius Syrus

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
Doug Coupland