Often Quotes

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.

It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.