Often Quotes

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.