Once Quotes

15894 Once quotes by 7842 unique authors

Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning… — Roger Caras
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born... — Aldous Huxley
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be… — Virginia Woolf
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is… — Marquis de Sade
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided… — Daniel J. Boorstin
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I… — Lord Byron
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son,… — Miguel de Unamuno
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had… — Archibald MacLeish
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better,… — Anne Frank
Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh… — Gunvor Hofmo
No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once. — Otto Lilienthal
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have… — William T. Piper
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight. — Richard Bach
Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick. — Jerry O'Connell
I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'. — Fred MacMurray
Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once? — Oswald J. Smith
Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one. — Cliff Richard
Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we… — Ann Curry
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the… — Michael Parenti
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is… — Janis Ian
You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because,… — Tom Petty
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine… — Cole Porter
A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn… — Jeremy Kagan

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