Once Quotes

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

I remember my first acting class: I was like, 'That's it.' If I know that I want to do something then I'm going to do it and there's no stopping me, whether it's if I want to take a movie part or don't, or eat sushi for lunch or don't. There's always a very clear goal. Once I figure out what I want that's it.

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.

Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.

Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.