Best I Once Quotations
498 I Once quotes by 413 unique authors
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Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I…
— Jerry Spinelli
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I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just…
— Steven Morrissey
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I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.
— Jay London
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I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for…
— Rod McKuen
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The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what…
— Mark Dever
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain…
— Carson McCullers
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Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with…
— Axel Munthe
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I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental…
— Thomas Eakins
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Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from…
— Francois Jacob
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I once thought losing my confidence was the worst thing that could happen; then I lost my faith.
— Bobby Vee
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You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
— Mercedes Ruehl
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This is a really difficult question. Although I once thought that a dream and an accomplishment are the same thing, I've now changed my mind.…
— Bae Yong-joon
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and…
— Marguerite Young
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In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though…
— Sophia Amoruso
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It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we…
— Jessica Ennis
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I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against…
— Regina Brett
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To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
— Regina Brett
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I once looked in the mirror at myself and noticed that, without a doubt, I am a sexy man. In fact, I don't think I'll…
— Zach Braff
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I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.
— Zach Braff
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I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at…
— Dale Carnegie
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So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine,…
— Tupac Shakur
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You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms... I once loved the whole world…
— Unknown Author
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I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was…
— Robert Fulghum
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we…
— Bob Goff
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got…
— Victoria Wood
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