Once Quotes

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.