Once Quotes

Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So, that is the thing that many people know me for. When in effect, that was the end of my television career.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

I was in love once, and it was terrible.

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.