Often Quotes

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.