Once Quotes

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.

You know, I've certainly gone through periods, once I got into this business, where I tried to adopt maybe a more sophisticated style, 'cause they give you all these free clothes.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.