Once Quotes

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

We pass through this world but once.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.