Often Quotes · Page 31

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

— Asa Larsson

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

— Saku Koivu

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

— Elie Wiesel

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't…

— Rachel Cusk

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading…

— Barton Gellman

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

— Andrew Luck

I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;…

— Susan Glaspell

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're…

— David Sze

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

— Tim Crouch

Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

— Elon Musk

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

— Kenneth Fisher

I think you hope, throughout the course of your career, if you do things right often enough, you might get a moment…

— Tim Howard

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house,…

— Alice Morse Earle

The hot deal is often the one that does not work.

— David Cohen

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained…

— Cynthia Voigt

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

— Diablo Cody

I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book,…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically…

— George Kaiser

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too…

— Alexander Alekhine

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 do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

— Laura Dekker

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally…

— Jess Walter

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true that the best surf…

— William Finnegan