Top 100 Once That Quotes
#1. Perhaps a heart was indeed like a piece of dry birchwood, and could only take fire and burn brightly once - that any fire that came after would be only an ember, smaller and cooler.
Tad Williams
#2. Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.
Roger Ross Williams
#4. The firsthand and the inter-generational experience, is the key, without it there is no memory once that first generation is gone.
Suzanna Eibuszyc
#5. Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.
Andrew O'Hagan
#6. You can't just go punching a bunch of kids in the face. Remember, you were once that kid looking for someone, anyone to connect to. That's still you.
Gabby Rivera
#7. It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey I had that same idea.' I'm very secretive with my music. We have to send emails password protected. Because once that song gets out, you aren't selling that thing.
Ester Dean
#8. My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.
Tana French
#9. Theros Ironfeld said once that - in all the years he had lived - he had never seen anything done out of love come to evil.
Margaret Weis
#10. "Then what do you see?" asked Irene, who perceived at once that for her not to believe him was at least as bad as for him not to believe her.
George MacDonald
#11. My father said once that if I didn't have my mother's ginger hair, I wouldn't blush or curse as easily. Which I though was unfair. I hardly ever curse or blush, even though I've had plenty of days that required both.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. It was lucky that snarking at Luke was habit by now: Elliot remembered a line from a book he'd read once, that habit was second nature, and nature stronger than the first. It was a comfort, to have a natural expression rather than one he had to pin on.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#13. Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision.
It's your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose.
Shirley Marr
#14. When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.
Mark Nepo
#15. I thought that once I got to this city nothing could ever catch up with me because I could remake my life daily. Once that had made me feel infinite. Now I was certain I would never learn. Being remade was the same thing as being constantly undone.
Stephanie Danler
#16. His eyes softened. But it doesn't change what we are to each other. It's like there's always been a piece of my soul missing, and it's inside you, Clary. I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.
Cassandra Clare
#17. Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. - MUHAMMAD ALI
Hal Elrod
#18. I read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead.
Sandra Steffen
#19. My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong
it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.
Alexandra Bracken
#20. That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.
Emily Dickinson
#21. I was supposed to go with you, wherever you went. We're a team. You told me once that I had to have a place. Well, I finally figured out where it is. It's with you.
Linda Kage
#22. He wanted to be deafened by the thunder of her engines, he needed to be drained of every thought by the cold, the noise, the equal amounts of boredom and adrenalin. He had believed once that he would be formed by the architecture of war, but now he realized, he had been erased by it.
Kate Atkinson
#23. Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Dick Wolf
#24. Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Norman Cousins
#25. A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
Karen Thompson Walker
#26. Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#27. I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."
Abraham Lincoln
#28. Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.
Marya Hornbacher
#29. What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.
Rainbow Rowell
#30. I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?
Andy Warhol
#31. I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.
Oscar Wilde
#32. I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.
Cassandra Clare
#33. A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, no one would ever go in the sea.
Cassandra Clare
#34. The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.
Christopher Meloni
#35. The feeling that he was near the conclusion of his life was an instinctive conviction, such as we have when we waken in the dark and know at once that it is near morning; or when we are walking across the country and suddenly know that we are near the sea. Letters came every week
Willa Cather
#37. Happy and angry. Happily angry. Everything, all at once. That's life, boy. You just keep getting fuller, until you burst and Allah takes you and casts your soul into another life later on. And so everything just keeps getting fuller.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#38. I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
George Horace Lorimer
#39. Nobody falls that way without being pushed. I know. And I know how it feels and looks, a body that falls fighting the air all the way down, grabbing onto clumps of nothing and begging once, just once, just goddamn once, Jesus, you sniveling son of a mongrel bitch, just once that air gives grip.
Marlon James
#40. I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be a vet because one of the teachers asked me and saying you want to be an actor sounds a little bit silly. And I do still feel a bit silly saying it. You feel a bit fraudulent.
Sophie Thompson
#41. read a quote once that said 'when you light a candle, you also cast a shadow
Karen Lynch
#42. There's a window of opportunity with every girl and once that passes it becomes impossible to bang.
Roosh V
#43. He has heard once that a man knows where he is from when he knows where he would like to be buried.
Colum McCann
#44. Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in terms of chronology to suit the story.
Ashwin Sanghi
#45. I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
Aaron Tveit
#46. The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.
Lars Ulrich
#47. Keep it bouncing," he'd told her once, "that's all the secret, keep it bouncing.
Thomas Pynchon
#48. Junior told me once that he was very impressed by Jimi Hendrix, by the way he was very wild, and yet he was very controlled. He knew where everything was going in a solo, and he (Junior), I think tries for the same effect, and I think he hits it virtually every time.
Mitch Mitchell
#49. Yes, the past is another country, but once that we can visit and once there we can bring back the things we need.
Jeanette Winterson
#50. but he never murdered me. Not once. That's saying something, isn't it?
Heidi Schulz
#51. I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
Snoop Dogg
#52. I don't think political correctness doesn't make any difference. Once that's in your DNA, you don't pass an ordinance or pass a law or all of the sudden change your DNA.
Kyle Petty
#53. When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.
Alan Dershowitz
#54. Someone had told him once that the desire to do something well is a good indicator of talent.
Diane Setterfield
#56. I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.
Patton Oswalt
#57. Whatever prompted life to begin, it happened just once. That is the most extraordinary fact in biology, perhaps the most extraordinary fact we know.
Bill Bryson
#58. A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once that's clear, it's much easier to decide if the work you're doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth.
Paul Jarvis
#60. I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.
Jack White
#61. Then he jumped..
I owe him so much. I needed him. I still do.
But he's gone.
He told me once that I shouldn't make people into heroes. He said that heroes didn't exist and that even if they did he wouldn't be one of them.
which goes to show. he wasn't right about everything..
Guy Adams
#62. He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. "That swimsuit," he begins. "Is small," I conclude.
Nicola Yoon
#63. Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
Joe Louis
#64. Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
Kate Reardon
#65. I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
Gottfried Leibniz
#66. Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
Brandi Carlile
#67. My father told me once that we are on earth to learn. God wants us to receive everything that life was meant to teach. Then we take what we've learned, and it becomes our offering to God and to mankind. But we have to live in order to learn. And sometimes we have to fight in order to live.
Amy Harmon
#68. There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#69. Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
Willa Cather
#70. Heard once that in dire times when you need a sign, that's when they appear.
Drake
#71. I saw a movie once that said that two people in a family aren't enough.
Rebecca Salas
#72. I am always playing hard trying to win. Just knowing that at one time I was once that kid that looked up to NBA players and NFL players. Today these kids look up me.
Jason Terry
#73. 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.
Hugh Dancy
#74. She told me once that every time she saw my name on her caller I.D. she got butterflies. I got this swelling ache in my chest. It was a good ache - like a heart orgasm.
Tarryn Fisher
#75. She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.
Marcel Proust
#76. I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on 'Jerry Springer.' It was really gaudy.
Steve Wilkos
#77. This town needs to win at something. We need to feel, just once, that we're best. I know it's a game. But that's not all it is. Not always.
Fredrik Backman
#78. There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
Ann Brashares
#79. My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.
Catherine Stock
#80. I think the first thing I consider is whether I like the script. Once that is done, the next thing I look for is my part in the movie. Many a times you come across good offers, but the part they are offering might not be challenging. So, I don't take up that film.
Rani Mukerji
#81. Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.
Flannery O'Connor
#82. I wish I could see what would have hapenned if I hadn't told. You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. So now there's a universe in which I kept my mouth shut. But I can't see what it looks like.
Rebecca Stead
#83. He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.
Colum McCann
#84. She smiled. He'd joked once that he feared her gown might be contagious, but it was her smile that was catching. It caught him now. He felt hooked by it, no desire to do anything except smile back at her.
Courtney Milan
#85. They said it just happens once. That you only can love someone in that way once in a lifetime. That it can change your life when it ends.
Yuli Pritania
#86. Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.
Khaled Hosseini
#87. James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song.
Alice Hoffman
#88. Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once. That's the thing. You know, I think that's particularly pertinent with Justin [Bieber] because, like, you just forget how young he is.
James Corden
#89. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.
Anna Kendrick
#90. Clearly the ring had an unwholesome power that set to work on its keeper at once. That
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.
Kanye West
#92. He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along
trying to wound his faith in order to test it
and I was just another stone in the way of his God.
Colum McCann
#93. I saw this cartoon in the paper, once. That Viking, Hagar the Horrible? He's standing on the mountaintop, holding his hands to the heavens, shouting "Why me?" And down from the heavens comes the answer: "Why not?" Maybe that's the ultimate truth; what right to do I have to expect a smooth ride?
Jonathan Kellerman
#94. I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#95. Well, do you want her help or not? Rylan asked impatiently. And then Damian finally spoke. Rylan, I demand you apologize to Alexa at once. That is no way to talk to my fiancee.
Your what? In his shock, Rylan didn't even attempt to hide the half horror, half jealousy on his face or in his voice.
Sara B. Larson
#96. Wait a minute," Lexi says. "I want to get back to this concept of sexual dominant, because I dated a guy once that -
Sawyer Bennett
#97. She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face to the side, learning all at once that it was awkward to show a person all of one's love when one's nose was broken.
Kristin Cashore
#98. I read once that if a bunch of butterflies takes off from Thailand, it can cause a rainstorm in New York.
Lauren Oliver
#99. I'd said to myself once that Gabriel preferred a life where he felt as little responsibility for others as possible. That was true. But even more true is the fact that he preferred a life where others felt no responsibility for him.
Kelley Armstrong
#100. me, "You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes. I had determined, once, that the memory of these evils should die with me; but you have won me to alter my determination.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
