Once Quotes

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Once I serve well, my whole game goes up.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.