Once Quotes

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick.

I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.