Top 100 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. Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner ...
Queen Victoria
#4. Why must there always be a price to pay for every indulgence, and why must it so often be withdrawn from the bankrupt accounts of the innocent?
Andrew Levkoff
#5. My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.
Sarah Rafferty
#6. 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
#7. and although her mother and father come to church every Sunday, and give liberally to charities, their little girl is not taught to find happiness by thinking of others rather than of herself, and so that poor little self of hers often feels as much neglected as Maggie Horn ever did.
Amy Ella Blanchard
#8. 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
#9. Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.
Alessandro Baricco
#10. The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren
#11. I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
Tim Daly
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.
Dan Bern
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
Jeffrey Archer
#22. 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
#23. Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!
Rachel Rueben
#24. You undo me, Savannah. Every time I look at you, I feel like a teenager. I can't stop thinking about you, or wanting to touch you. I've never wanted to kiss someone so badly or so often. It's overwhelming to be so thoroughly captivated by someone so much better than me. And you are better than me.
Ayden K. Morgen
#25. I don't get recognized in England. Not at all. Every so often, I get recognized in other countries.
Katie McGrath
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#32. Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.
Lily Cole
#33. 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
#34. How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?
Nicole Krauss
#35. Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people.
Tristram Stuart
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. It [soccer] would be much more interesting if every so often, the ball spontaneously exploded.
Michelle Madow
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
Alan Rickman
#50. Every road will take you somewhere! But the question is: To where? To a sunny place or to a place full with shadows? Those who are very sure of their paths often end up in the second place! Don't be so sure with your path, question it ten times, question it hundred times!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. 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
#52. Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.
Nina Dobrev
#54. Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
John Dryden
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
Peter Greenaway
#58. I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
Ned Beauman
#59. 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
#60. We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty," he insisted, "and every other key virtue we learned as humans." He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.
Anne Rice
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
Barry McGuigan
#65. I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people.
Steve Waugh
#66. 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
#67. My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
Vidya Balan
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.
Anthony Bourdain
#71. Truly the angels are come among us every day. Our difficulty is so often that in our vanity and worldliness we so utterly fail to recognise them for what they are.
Joseph O'Connor
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me , so that no discovery can disillusion him about me , in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.
J.I. Packer
#76. We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time
we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.
Mitch Albom
#77. 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
#78. I hope you know I love you, not just because I tell you so at every opportunity, but because I show you so as often as the sun sets.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, "You're being idiots, this happens every other year."
Chuck Klosterman
#83. 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
#84. Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.
Elena Ferrante
#85. So often I sit around and think about life and wonder about every possible aspect of it. I wonder what the hell I'm doing here.
J.A. Redmerski
#86. 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
#87. Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Robyn Hitchcock
#88. 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
#89. Perhaps they saw what their minds were instructed to see, because the human brain is not equipped to see War, Famine, Pollution, and Death when they don't want to be seen, and has got so good at not seeing that it often manages not to see them even when they abound on every side.
Terry Pratchett
#90. The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
Vanessa Redgrave
#92. 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
#93. It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
Saku Koivu
#94. 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
#95. Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
Louise Erdrich
#96. Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.
Charlton Heston
#97. Every trace of the passionate plumage of the cloudy sunset had been swept away, and a naked moon stood in a naked sky. The moon was so strong and full, that (by a paradox often to be noticed) it seemed like a weaker sun. It gave, not the sense of bright moonshine, but rather of a dead daylight.
G.K. Chesterton
#98. 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
#99. Oh, how often I had played the part of the fool, but I learned from it every time. This new pain would ultimately help me grow stronger; I knew that. But it ached so terribly, and I felt so very, very cold. In
Charlie N. Holmberg
#100. 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
