Often Quotes

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

So, do you live around here often?

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.