Once Quotes

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures… I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with ‘Once upon a time.’

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Once I get my mind set on something, I want to see it succeed at the highest level.

The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, ‘What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?’

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn’t want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it’s hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that’s basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you’re really stuck with them in some sense. You can’t return them to the wild.

I have a good cry once in a while; it’s such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy – watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It’s like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they’ll crystallize into a pattern.

Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we’ve all made.

We’ve learned to embrace our own physical shadows by leaning on each other and Once to find motivation and energy to keep our heads up and stay healthy.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was… a large Arctic region covered with ice.

You don’t do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

I loved ‘Life is Beautiful’ and action films are great, like ‘Die Hard.’ My favourite is the mob film – ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Once Upon a Time In America,’ anything with Robert De Niro in it.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

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

Parent and child may both love, but – unbeknown to the child – each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for ‘love’, what we mean is that we want to ‘be loved’ as we were once loved by a parent.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I’m not working, you’d better spend that time with someone important.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

There’s a lot of stress… but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.

Once people see Bitcoin and how it works, they realise this isn’t just a flash in the pan.