Once Quotes

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.