All Quotes

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.
‐‐ Ryan Cartwright

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
‐‐ Hesiod

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.
‐‐ Jones Very

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.
‐‐ David Chipperfield

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
‐‐ Christopher Eccleston

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
‐‐ Rachael Taylor

Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.
‐‐ Pierre Loti

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
‐‐ Peter Lewis Allen

Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than being averse to social engagement, introverts become overwhelmed by too much of it, which explains why the introvert is ready to leave a party after an hour and the extravert gains steam as the night goes on.
‐‐ Laurie Helgoe

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
‐‐ Adela Florence Nicolson

Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.
‐‐ Rebecca Skloot

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.
‐‐ Tyler Cowen

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.
‐‐ Jon Landau

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
‐‐ Hesiod

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
‐‐ Hermann Ebbinghaus

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.
‐‐ Robert T. Bakker

Often, farmers have difficulty finding secondary markets for their outgrades and have no choice but to leave fresh produce unharvested to rot in the field. Gleaning Network U.K. coordinates teams of volunteers with willing farmers across the U.K. to direct this fresh surplus produce to charities that redistribute it to people that need it most.
‐‐ Tristram Stuart

Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
‐‐ Sally Schneider

Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing.
‐‐ George Packer

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
‐‐ Petrarch

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
‐‐ Pat Brown

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!
‐‐ Ludwig van Beethoven

Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.
‐‐ Carrie Ann Inaba

Often I feel I say too much.
‐‐ Morrissey

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.
‐‐ Emily Giffin

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There's a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I'll realise which ones are working and which aren't.
‐‐ Cecily Brown

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
‐‐ Erica Jong

Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
‐‐ Craig Brown

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.
‐‐ Ernst Junger

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.
‐‐ Patty Griffin

Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

Often, I'll ask clients who've found a great contracting relationship how they did so. The answer is almost always that they heard about them through a friend or colleague.
‐‐ Molly Holzschlag

Often, I'll do a quick workout in my hotel room consisting of exercises for the legs, glutes, abs, and arms with my own body weight. Also, I always have a jump rope, a medicine ball I can inflate, and a band in my suitcase. It's a great kit to have for travel.
‐‐ Izabel Goulart

Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.
‐‐ Andrea Riseborough

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.
‐‐ Raymond E. Feist

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
‐‐ Laila Robins