Once Quotes

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.