Once Quotes

15894 Once quotes by 7842 unique authors

This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for… — Ronald Reagan
It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many… — Ernest Hemingway
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down… — Rudyard Kipling
[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible. — Thomas Jefferson
Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work… — Barbara Gittings
Every gay person must come out.... Once they realize we are indeed their children, we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will… — Harvey Milk
Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once. — Madonna Ciccone
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the… — Stefan Zweig
The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to… — Albert Camus
If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the… — Unknown Author
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it… — Christopher Hitchens
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're… — Paul Simon
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must… — Boethius
Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a… — Naomi Ragen
Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else? — Mike Medavoy
Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it. — Marta Kauffman
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also… — Paul Zollo
I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and… — Bonnie Baker
People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard… — Paul McCartney
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to… — Bob Dylan
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely… — William J. Clinton
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..." — William Bennett
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative… — Sylvia Plath

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