Once Quotes

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.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.