Occasional Quotes

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.