Often Quotes · Page 28

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

— Lee Myung-bak

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

— James Gray

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

— Noam Chomsky

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

— Dick Cavett

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

— Chris Abani

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

— Jack Keane

I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do…

— Jonathan Turley

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me…

— Asa Larsson

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot…

— Shane Carruth

People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes…

— Mara Wilson

From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often…

— Tom Chatfield

I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't…

— Jerrold Nadler

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I…

— George Murray

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and…

— David Josiah Brewer

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy…

— Emma Donoghue

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue…

— Brian Eno

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that…

— Anonymous

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government…

— David Malpass

The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front…

— Bob Barr

The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling…

— Bob Barr

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

— Kevin Cramer

Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.

— Noreena Hertz

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

— Mary Hart

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

— K'naan

We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

— Alex Berenson

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

— Jerry Brown

Often when you're a teenage girl, you get sent characters that are so unenjoyable and unexciting.

— Kerris Dorsey

I never dress appropriately in terms of comfort, but I wear what I'm feeling. I often to like to feel a little…

— Chelsea Leyland

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

— Jane Harman

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

— Alan Huffman

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to…

— William Atherton

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

— Elizabeth Drew

The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

In subjects that physicists think of as purely quantum, classical ideas and classical computational techniques can often be powerful.

— Kip Thorne

In my situation there are often things I need to do for the team, so when I get the chance to relax…

— Sidney Crosby