Once Quotes

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

To have died once is enough.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.