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Once Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to…
- Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official…
- And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes…
- She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not…
- I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own…
- My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
- But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless…
- I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead,…
- No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning…
- It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So,…
- And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins