Once Quotes

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.

There are thin girls with infertility issues, normal sized girls with infertility issues and overweight girls with infertility issues. Unless your doctor tells you your weight is affecting you in some way... once the doctor rules it out, that's really not it.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.