Often Quotes

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

So, do you live around here often?

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.