Every So Often Quotes

#1. Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

Frank Dane

#2. Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Howard Lindsay

#3. My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.

Sarah Rafferty

#4. I was tied to this place by the loose elastic of ancient guilt, and every so often the pull became too insistent to ignore.

Mike Carey

#5. Every so often I revolt, even against what I believe in with all my heart. I have to attack everything, myself included. Why? To simplify things.

Henry Miller

#6. Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.

Alessandro Baricco

#7. I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Tim Daly

#8. Let's invent "do nothing" days, where there is no plan and no structured play. Let's ensure that kids get bored every so often and have to use their imaginations to invent ways to escape.

Richard Watson

#9. Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.

Lauren Lapkus

#10. Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search ... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.

Italo Calvino

#11. Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

Jonathan Tropper

#12. When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#13. Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Tony Blair

#14. You shouldn't feel guilty about taking time for yourself. Every so often, everyone needs to give themselves a big ol' bear hug and treat themselves to some TLC.

Sean Covey

#15. The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'

Dick Cavett

#16. Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works.

Robert Greenblatt

#17. Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!

Rachel Rueben

#18. I don't get recognized in England. Not at all. Every so often, I get recognized in other countries.

Katie McGrath

#19. Every so often they exchanged these quick, knowing glances, each making sure the other one was still there, still with her. I wondered how long their friendship would last, and I felt sorry for them, because they didn't know it wouldn't.

Leah Stewart

#20. Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.

Jeaniene Frost

#21. Don't be snowed by a handsome guy at a bookstore who quotes Cicero and Proust. They are often not the real thing. As with many fleeting pleasures
travel in their company, enjoy them every so often, and then get on with your life.

Jennifer Kaufman

#22. Every so often I was overwhelmed by a phantom pain that cut through me like a knife. I was certain that if I looked down I would find blood all over, like the knife I once held in my hands, but it was all in my mind.

Gail Tsukiyama

#23. Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

Andy Goldsworthy

#24. Years ago, there were tribes that roamed the earth, and every tribe had a magic person. Well, now, as you know, all the tribes have dispersed, but every so often you meet a magic person, and every so often, you meet someone from your tribe.

Carrie Fisher

#25. I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

Al Seckel

#26. I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

Laura Gilpin

#27. It [soccer] would be much more interesting if every so often, the ball spontaneously exploded.

Michelle Madow

#28. And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

Phil Lesh

#29. We sat on the floor eating donuts, completely dazed and hung over. I looked up at the window every so often to gaze at the Christmas lights. They were so beautiful. They blinked on and off in what should have been the early night dark but was really the early morning dark.

Chrissi Sepe

#30. Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

Lynda Obst

#31. I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.

Alan Zweibel

#32. Every so often I contemplate suicide merely to remind myself of my complete lack of interest in it as a solution to anything at all.

Nora Ephron

#33. Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

David Sedaris

#34. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

#35. I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

Gary D. Schmidt

#36. Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called. And every time they've called, we've answered? because they have lots of money.

Margo Timmins

#37. One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.

Bruce Nauman

#38. Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

Alan Rickman

#39. I didn't want to be a Hollywood actress who every so often does a Broadway play. I wanted to be a Broadway actress who every so often does a movie.

Geraldine Page

#40. Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

Eric Kripke

#41. It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

Otto Rank

#42. I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

Ned Beauman

#43. I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

Daniel Tammet

#44. Every so often in life, you have no control. And instead of fighting, you can choose to accept what life brings you, and make the best of it.

Nikki Sex

#45. We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.

Tim Gunn

#46. Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

Amy Klobuchar

#47. A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

Barry McGuigan

#48. I think life likes to do that every now and again. Every so often it likes to dip and when you feel like you can't take any more it smoothes out again.

Cecelia Ahern

#49. Every so often, I am thanked for being 'unapologetically me.' I treasure those moments, those people, and remember them every time I'm feeling timid.

Alethea Kontis

#50. Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

Willem De Kooning

#51. I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

Esmeralda Santiago

#52. I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

Tom Clancy

#53. Investors need to pick their poison: Either make more money when times are good and have a really ugly year every so often, or protect on the downside and don't be at the party so long when things are good.

Seth Klarman

#54. I wanted to know if we could live in that state of love, not just every so often, but as an ongoing reality. The answer is YES. There are people who are doing just that, and I wanted to share with the world how they're consistently living in a state of love.

Marci Shimoff

#55. Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.

Sam Kean

#56. Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

William J.H. Boetcker

#57. I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

Barack Obama

#58. Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#59. Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

Elena Ferrante

#60. Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.

Jude Law

#61. Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

Robyn Hitchcock

#62. But every so often I look at Tobias, and he looks back at me, like we're passing fear back and forth between us.

Veronica Roth

#63. The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

Vanessa Redgrave

#64. Every so often, push your luck.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#65. There's rebellion in my marrow. We all have it. Most of us, if we've any wits about us, keep it hidden from the rest of the world. We ignore the way it calls our name when no one's around, and then every so often, it asks us to dance when it's sure no one's watching. Jensen

Winter Renshaw

#66. One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next.

Ryan Holmes

#67. Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

Louise Erdrich

#68. Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

Charlton Heston

#69. Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Ben Shapiro

#70. Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

John Robbins

#71. Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.

Stephen Schwartz

#72. I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle ... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.

Mike Schmidt

#73. A word forgot to remember what to forget and every so often let the truth slip - RENEE C. NEBLETT, Snapshots

Taiye Selasi

#74. The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

Dean Cavanagh

#75. I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'

Michael Caine

#76. Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison

#77. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms ...

Barack Obama

#78. My husband was very special and very funny and outspoken, and he would have a black and blue every so often because under the table, I'd say, 'Don't say that!'

Blythe Danner

#79. At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.

Cheryl Hines

#80. I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

Magic Johnson

#81. Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Alexei Sayle

#82. Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

Helena Bonham Carter

#83. I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.

Richard J. Codey

#84. Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility. Maybe the last shred of faith people have is in their firemen.

Kurt Vonnegut

#85. Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!

Dick Cavett

#86. In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, 'Cut it out.'

Steven Wright

#87. Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world ... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

Irving Penn

#88. Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

Elvis Costello

#89. It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.

Kristen Britain

#90. The resurrection tells us it is never too late. Every so often we will be surprised. We must believe that the stone will be rolled back, and we must be ready to poke out our timid heads, take off the linen bindings of death, and walk free for a time, breathing resurrection air.

Ronald Rolheiser

#91. I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often.

Lori Foster

#92. But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

Diana Wynne Jones

#93. Every so often, a lightning flash would reveal us to each other, and the expression on his face - so rapt, so helpless, so utterly mine - was the most beautiful thing I ever expected to see in my life.

April Lindner

#94. I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

Edward Weston

#95. The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

Willem Dafoe

#96. In therapy, the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.

Jeanette Winterson

#97. I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

Raina Telgemeier

#98. We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre: the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report.

Julian Barnes

#99. As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

Larry Niven

#100. I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

Jim Carter