Often Quotes

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

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.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.