Often Quotes

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.