Once Quotes

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.

I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such.