Occasionally Quotes
721 quotes by 606 authors
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What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the…
— Alan Ayckbourn
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IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I…
— Amy Bloom
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During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move…
— Richard Preston
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Let there be music in the home. If you have teenagers who have their own recordings, you will be prone to describe the sound as…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
— Anna Quindlen
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The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows…
— William Booth
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to…
— Garry Shandling
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
— Sam Kinison
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a…
— Nikki Giovanni
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Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to…
— Robert Greene
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It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on.…
— Sebastian Faulks
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I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in itself.…
— Henri
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given…
— Charlie Munger
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The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he…
— Cleanth Brooks
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I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of…
— Abiola Abrams
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Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.
— Graham Norton
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