Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
‐‐ Alfred Eisenstaedt
Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.
‐‐ John Yoo
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.
‐‐ Ron Chernow
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
‐‐ H. G. Wells
Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.
‐‐ Jon Meacham
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
‐‐ Sarah Bernhardt
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra
Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.
‐‐ Robert Redford
Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.
‐‐ Cynthia Payne
Once the film is done, then I like to watch myself. I know some actors say that they get very self-conscious watching themselves on screen especially if they have to cry in the scenes, they don't like the way their face contorts, but I have no such issues.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone
Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.
‐‐ Peter Jackson
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
‐‐ Dan Rather
Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.
‐‐ Joshua A. Tucker
Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.
‐‐ John Dykstra
Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
‐‐ Laura Schlessinger
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno
Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.
‐‐ Richard Morris
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
‐‐ Douglas Haig
Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders of mood or anxiety would be entered into it.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
‐‐ Alberto Giacometti
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
‐‐ Diane Cilento
Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.
‐‐ Ernest Cline
Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work.
‐‐ John Gurdon
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
‐‐ Jef Raskin
Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?
‐‐ Robert Dallek
Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
‐‐ Valentino Rossi
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
‐‐ Rainer Maria Rilke
Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.
‐‐ LL Cool J
Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.
‐‐ Keith Olbermann
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
‐‐ Moshe Sharett
Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
‐‐ Bode Miller
Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.
‐‐ Michael Nesmith
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
‐‐ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'
‐‐ David Chase
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.
‐‐ Michael Moriarty
Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.
‐‐ Monica Crowley
Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my next novel, I finally started telling people that I was a writer. I remember how special that year felt.
‐‐ James Bernard Frost
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.
‐‐ John Conyers
Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
‐‐ Palaniappan Chidambaram
Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.
‐‐ Tom Chatfield
Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five.
‐‐ Jurgen Klinsmann
Once the world has been created, the fantasy author still has to bring the story's characters to life and unfold a gripping plot. That's why good fantasy is such a hard act to bring off.
‐‐ Tony Bradman
Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.
‐‐ Nick Davies
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
‐‐ Andrew Young
Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.
‐‐ Nicole Ari Parker
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs