Once Wrote Quotes

38 quotes by 37 authors

• I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated. — Paul Jacob
• 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
• Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation--it either takes or it doesn't--and when you explain to somebody what it is and… — Seth Klarman
• I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like… — Warren G. Bennis
• I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world… — Thom Yorke
• Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. — E. Lockhart
• The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the… — Chuck Jones
• The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line… — Michael Connelly
• This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain… — Carson McCullers
• Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. — James Ellroy
• To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. — Regina Brett
• Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people… — Fanny Crosby
• As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun. — Martin Gardner
• Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course,… — Samuel Reshevsky
• A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves. — Debbie Ford
• Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence… — Dan Simmons
• Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means;… — Bayard Rustin
• It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of… — John Cheever
• A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• 'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the… — Lyndon B. Johnson

Who Wrote These Once Wrote Quotes

37 authors contributed a total of 38 Once Wrote Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Richard Dawkins
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• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Daniel Handler
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• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Haruki Murakami
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• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Anthony Horowitz
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by John Berendt
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Karen White
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Paul Jacob
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Julie Burchill
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Boethius
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by William Blake
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Seth Klarman
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Lucas Scott
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Warren G. Bennis
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• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Thom Yorke
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• 1 Once Wrote Quote by E. Lockhart
• 1 Once Wrote Quote by Chuck Jones