Once Quotes

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.