Often Quotes · Page 23

It's not too often in your life you have 4 or 5-footers for $10 million.

— Xander Schauffele

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

— Mel Smith

I just grow a terrible mustache, so I try to use my neckbeard as a substitute. And when I get lazy, I…

— Andrew Luck

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

— Noam Chomsky

National Democrats often try to pay for something with oil and gas taxes.

— Mark Begich

What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat.

— Malcolm Fraser

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

— Isabella Rossellini

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

— Mike Quigley

I remember very vividly what it's like to be a child. The adults you liked were the ones who listened to you…

— Rolf Harris

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the…

— Joel Robuchon

We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often…

— Gary Frank

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating…

— Dean Ornish

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know…

— Siri Hustvedt

It is a very brave choice to go against traditional medicine and embrace the alternative route. It's easier to try the traditional…

— Suzanne Somers

I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit…

— Lapo Elkann

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a…

— Michael Leunig

New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles…

— David S. Goyer

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change…

— Eric Ries

I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or…

— Franco Moschino

First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have…

— Jodi Kantor

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he…

— Glenn Greenwald

Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without…

— Wen Jiabao

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when…

— Matt Dillon

My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world.…

— Kem Nunn

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

— Stephen Hunter

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

— Gerald Chertavian

I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me;…

— Jan Hus

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

— George W. Romney

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

— Joel Edgerton

Middle-class girls are often attracted to boys from the wrong side of the tracks.

— Shanna Moakler

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady…

— Robert Gottlieb

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

— David Friedman

I think so often you can come out of drama school and get thrown in the deep end.

— Michelle Dockery

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

— Viggo Mortensen

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

— Jim Leach

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love…

— Anthony Powell

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected…

— Rabindranath Maharaj

The secreting of wealth in tax havens is often justified as 'legitimate tax planning.'

— Prashant Bhushan

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

— Jonathan Miller