Once Quotes

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Once a Raider, always a Raider.

Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.