Often Quotes

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.

I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.