Top 100 Often You Quotes
#1. Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.
Johan Cruijff
#2. Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.
Joyce Carol Oates
#3. Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.
Blake Lively
#4. The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.
Allen Johnson
#5. It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.
Kevyn Aucoin
#6. The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment.
Dorothy Dunnett
#7. Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.
Meghan Daum
#8. To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
William Hague
#9. Poems are word paintings. Poetry doesn't belong to time. That's why often you feel as if poems are speaking directly to you.
Salil Jha
#10. People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.
Mike White
#11. Quite often you look for answers and strength in friends (supposed 2b) around you, without realizing All the true strength and honest answers come from within!!!
V Filipa Ketteridge
#12. When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
Richard Carlson
#13. You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every so often you'll find a gem, a wallet-sized masterpiece you're certain could hang on the wall of a gallery if only someone with a name had taken it. Find one or two of those and you're hooked for life.
Ransom Riggs
#14. Quite often you drive me mad, but more often I'm just mad about you. And that darling, that's the best love there is.
Crystal Woods
#15. When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously, when you're in a scene with somebody, you're supposed to listen and react - and that's a bit of a transition.
Jon Stewart
#16. Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
#17. My best tip: Create re-occurring calendar events for your exercise times. When a conflict arises, it forces you to consciously choose work over exercise, and often you'll find you have time for both.
Jessica Scorpio
#18. The more often you act in these unhealthy ways, the more you teach your brain that what is simply a habit (a learned behavior) is essential to your survival.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#19. Were you born in a barn? I must have been, mom asked me so often... You would've thought she would know if anyone did!
Justin Matott
#20. Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.
Mark Frauenfelder
#21. I think so often you can come out of drama school and get thrown in the deep end.
Michelle Dockery
#23. Try not to think too often, you'll only hurt yourself
Jeaniene Frost
#24. Often you don't know whether you're the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.
Tim Kreider
#25. On the appearance of Clayton Moore at a Blue Jays home game - It's not very often you get to see the Lone Ranger and Toronto in the same night.
Bobby Bragan
#26. We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.
Louise L. Hay
#27. Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.
Thelma Harper
#28. The whole point of growing up is to get big enough to hold the world you want inside you. But it takes a long time, and you really must eat your vegetables, and most often you have to make the world you want out of yourself.
Catherynne M Valente
#29. Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he was not comfortable with all the accolades that would be.
Kumi Naidoo
#30. If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.
Russell Brand
#31. The press has made up so much ... God ... awful, horrifying stories ... it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
Michael Jackson
#32. What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
Victor Hugo
#33. It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.
Leonard Nimoy
#34. It's not often you get something for free in this life.
Tarryn Fisher
#35. It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
Bono
#36. Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.
Alli Simpson
#37. A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a woman, that's your choice. But often you get a rejection letter because your play isn't ready. Or the time isn't ready for your play. And that has nothing to do with gender.
Jane Anderson
#38. I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.
Barry Humphries
#39. By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert
#40. There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.
Cesar Millan
#41. Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.
Clifford D. Simak
#42. Not every situation has a perfect solution; often, you just have to take your pick from the array of poor choices spread out before you.
Drew Hayes
#43. So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.
Sun Myung Moon
#44. We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you.
And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn't often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire
club.
Charlaine Harris
#45. One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.
Jill Scott
#46. Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.
Gabe Berman
#47. There's only so often you're going to have an opportunity to contribute at a high level and that you should be grateful whenever one presents itself and not take it lightly.
Ethan Hawke
#48. If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.
Marvin Gaye
#49. Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.
Sergei Bubka
#50. No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand
for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
Ivan Turgenev
#51. What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
Alan Rickman
#52. If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
Simon Van Booy
#53. Very often you expect one thing from looking at the outside of it, but when you open it, there's something else entirely.
Lemony Snicket
#54. Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.
Neil Gaiman
#55. Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often ... You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend.
Tom Giaquinto
#56. Science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen - though often you only wish that it could.
Arthur C. Clarke
#57. Good or bad? Right or wrong? That's what you're asking me? You'd be surprised how often you can't tell the difference. How often they want the same thing.
Robyn Roze
#58. Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.
Arianna Huffington
#59. Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
Alexander Hanson
#60. Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Robyn Hitchcock
#61. 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
#62. So often you're asked to play impossibly perfect version of yourself on screen that it's nice to get to bring in those parts that you think aren't as worth looking at.
Zoe Kazan
#63. A lesson for you, Mr. Grim: Intending an action and doing it are far from the same thing. Until you are right there, with the choice in front of you, you can only guess what you might do, and what your character might be. Are you hero or coward? Often you will guess wrong.
Violet Haberdasher
#64. With real greatness, there's a jolt at the end of the wire. It doesn't matter how often you grab hold of the line, or how many people have grabbed hold of it before you. It's the same line. Fallen from a higher life. It still carries some of the same shock.
Donna Tartt
#65. You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.
Louisa May Alcott
#66. The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you'll feel.
Beverly K. Bachel
#67. The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.
Courtney Maum
#68. When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.
Clare Bowen
#69. Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.
Joan Didion
#70. When you walk into a store and you want to buy something, you give them cash and they sell it to you. But very often, you walk into our "store" and you want something - a credit card, maybe, or a loan - and very often the answer is "No," even if you're a large corporation.
Jamie Dimon
#71. You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.
Giulio Andreotti
#72. You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.
Emma Donoghue
#73. What you practice too often, you use without thinking.
Robert Jordan
#74. Often you just have to rely on your intuition.
Bill Gates
#75. Often you have to rely on intuition.
Bill Gates
#76. Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.
Morgan Freeman
#77. Often you cannot wait for inspiration - it needs to be sought out.
Dean F. Wilson
#78. I see something between you two. I do not see it often. You have something rare and precious. You must treat your love like the most valuable thing you will ever own. Don't ever let it get away from you. You will regret it your entire life, I assure you.
Andrea Laurence
#79. Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.
Lech Walesa
#80. I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
Jean Rhys
#81. Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
Robert Jordan
#82. I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.
Theresa Sjoquist
#83. As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.
Aden Young
#84. Often, you know.' 'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar. Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like
Lewis Carroll
#85. So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.
Christian Bale
#86. I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson
#87. Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
Horace
#88. The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship.
Greg Child
#89. I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.
Mark Pincus
#90. Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.
Ilsa J. Bick
#91. I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.
Robert Jordan
#92. They told me,Heraclitus,they told me
you are dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear
and bitter tears to shed ...
I wept when i remembered how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking,and sent him down the sky.
Callimachus
#93. Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it might be too late.
Tom Hiddleston
#94. It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.
Nathaniel Branden
#95. A great song that gets played so often you can no longer hear what made it great.
Andy Selsberg
#96. Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.
Nicolas Cage
#97. Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
Ted Cruz
#98. I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
Rachel Cusk
#99. Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
Dan Severson
#100. When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.
Saint John Chrysostom
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