Once Quotes

I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.