Often Quotes

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

Dying people often become childish.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.