Often Quotes

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

Where did you run today? Now there's a question you don't often hear.

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.