Often Quotes
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.
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Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
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Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
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The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
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Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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Go where the money is... and go there often.
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Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
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We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.
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Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
