Often Quotes

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.