Often Quotes

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

I've played Henry Fonda's mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him 'son' and he calls me 'Ma', just to save time.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Often I feel I say too much.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.