Often Quotes

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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.