Often Quotes · Page 25

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

— Michelle Williams

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull…

— Geddy Lee

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.

— Mike White

In 'Adeline,' I did what I had done so often before. I disappeared into someone else, and I emerged as myself.

— Norah Vincent

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

— James Wolk

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

— James Gray

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy…

— C. J. Box

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the…

— Neneh Cherry

What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well…

— Naomi Wolf

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing…

— William Cullen Bryant

Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling…

— Jeaniene Frost

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think…

— Robert Creeley

If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course.…

— Richard Elman

Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question…

— Darren L Johnson

So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best…

— Dallas Willard

Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial…

— Hart Bochner

I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my speaker phone, and after…

— Marlee Matlin

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village.…

— Michael Specter

I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with.…

— Dmitry Medvedev

In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to…

— Jed S. Rakoff

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2…

— Joshua Foer

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some…

— Richard Eyre

Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen…

— Richard Engel

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

We're often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.

— David Duval

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the…

— Alex Graves

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'

— Mario Monti

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant…

— Mother Maribel

I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with…

— Justin Hayward

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

— Alice Lowe

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

— Joanna Lumley

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

— Leonard Mlodinow

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

— Ian Mckellen

Drink often drives a man to misfortune and misfortune often drives a man to drink.

— Vikrant Parsai

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in…

— Hugo Weaving

I don't think I ever got parts that interested me. Well, I did occasionally, but more often than not, they did not…

— Maureen O'Sullivan

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many…

— Chelsea Cain

I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.

— John Key

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

— Ben Horowitz