Once Quotes

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.

I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

I have no trouble walking around. But every once in a while, somebody will come, during the course of the day, and say, 'Oh, I recognize you from such-and-such,' and yeah, they'll make a connection. I think for the most part, people don't go, 'Where do I know him from? Does he work at the bank?'

Every harlot was a virgin once.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.

I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say.

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

Once a Raider, always a Raider.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.