Once Quotes

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

You only live once.

I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.