Once Quotes
15894 Once quotes by 7842 unique authors
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have…
— Germaine Greer
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RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music…
— Corey Taylor
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Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but lost the impact it once…
— Corey Taylor
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My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However…
— John Cheever
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Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might…
— Alicia Silverstone
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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once…
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar…
— Beryl Bainbridge
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A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted…
— David Brooks
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You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that…
— Neil Gaiman
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
— J. B. Priestley
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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
— Anne Tyler
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Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
— Beryl Bainbridge
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To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and…
— John Hersey
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The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish…
— Neil Gaiman
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Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.
— Bonnie Tyler
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
— Bear Grylls
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For Yesterday was once To-morrow.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
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When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to…
— Cecil O. Samuelson
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views…
— Doris Lessing
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I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no…
— Kate Winslet
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There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his…
— Alexander Kotov
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One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together!…
— Fred Reinfeld
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