Often Quotes

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive.

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.