Often Quotes · Page 26

Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.

— Jerry Costello

Politicians often say to me, 'Articles in the 'Observer' don't get me votes, but you get me money.'

— Jared Kushner

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

— Ron Eglash

You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was…

— Sean Covey

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

— James Blake

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the…

— Peter Temple

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

— Eugene Ionesco

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and…

— Richard Jefferies

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter -…

— Andrew Pyper

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of…

— Mark McKinnon

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

It's a mystery, that thing about chemistry, because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on…

— Helen Mirren

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do…

— Steven Sinofsky

'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't…

— Kit Harington

Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed.…

— Shari Arison

The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes…

— Sufjan Stevens

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the…

— Gary Wolf

My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for…

— Marcia Angell

When young people see movies like 'Gandhi 'or 'JFK,' there is an element of romanticization of these powerful people, and young people…

— Mario Van Peebles

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up…

— Christine Lagarde

It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.

— Jed S. Rakoff

Steaming is a great way to cook any firm fleshed fish, but it's often overlooked by the home cook.

— Tom Douglas

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

— John Zimmerman

Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

— Rebecca Skloot

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.

— Douglas Lain

I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.

— Neve McIntosh

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions…

— Robert Crais

Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.

— Brad Goreski

When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes.

— Marcus Samuelsson

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as…

— Charles Leadbeater

More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.

— Craig Brown

Play as much as you can as often as you can with as many people as you can. That's how you learn…

— Les Claypool

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

— Barry Ritholtz

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

— Lewis Grizzard

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

— Christien Meindertsma

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

— Noah Feldman