Often Quotes

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.