Once Quotes

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.

There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.