Often Quotes

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.