Often Quotes

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

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

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.