Often Quotes

Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I often work by avoidance.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

Dying people often become childish.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.