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Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
— Leo Durocher
And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.
— Arundhati Roy
Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know.
— Sarah Mlynowski
Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.
— A.E. Samaan
If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange.
— Javier Cercas
I said no to having a beer. I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn't like it. It's really that simple for me. [pp.37]
— Stephen Chbosky
It was once said that religion explains in terms of agents what science explains in terms of processes.
— Anthony Peake
John Bunyan once said, "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." If
— Diane Moody
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
— Diogenes
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
— Paulo Coelho
Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive."
— Tom Robbins
I remember reading a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine once where this guy said... Every woman has the exact love life she wants
— Elizabeth Young
Someone once said that one measure of sentience was how much energy a sophont spent on matters other than survival. Fiben
— David Brin
I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.
— Jack Redmond
As a wise Pug once said, all you need is love, kibble and a de-worming tablet every three to six months.
— Gemma Correll
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
— J. Courtney Sullivan
Then some one said, "We will return no more";
And all at once they sang, "Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam. — Alfred Tennyson
And all at once they sang, "Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam. — Alfred Tennyson
Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!
— Walter Isaacson
People always hurt us with their trust, Karla said to me once. The surest way to hurt someone you like, is to put all your trust in him.
— Gregory David Roberts
As God once said, and I think rightly ...
— Bernard Law Montgomery
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
— Madeline Miller
Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
— Nora Roberts
Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.
— LeBron James
The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.
— Gregory David Roberts
Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken.
— John Harvey
My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that.
— Miranda Hart
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.
— K.J. Parker
You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.
— Dan Chaon
Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!
— Vivian Stanshall
A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.
— Robert Duvall
Sir, no insult intended, but you said to me once that you don't like kiss-asses and that you'd rather work with people challenging your perceptions.
— Mario Stinger
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
— Virginia Woolf
Once he had said to her that a man should never be judged by the result of his labors, but by the nature of his effort.
— Zane Grey
With great freedom comes great responsibility, someone said once, well, it doesn't work the other way around.
— Antoine Wilson
As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
— Sydney J. Harris
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
— Anatole Broyard
Lombardi works you so hard," Knafelc once said, "that when he tells you to go to hell, you look forward to the trip.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
— Walker Percy
Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him.
— Paul Bowles
A mobster who knew Trump socially said of him once, "He'd lie to you about what time of day it is - just for the practice.
— John Connolly
She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time."
An incantation. — Jennifer McMahon
An incantation. — Jennifer McMahon
He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests.
— Graham McNeill
Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes ...
— Barack Obama
She said, once, shortly before she died, that roses smelled like happiness. Whenever she smelled a rose, she thought of the day we met.
— Patricia Briggs
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
— Andre Breton
I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'
— Luise Rainer
Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean ... ' I took no offense.
— Linda Wells
Flowers just keep growing, detached and sure of themselves, she had once said,. We're the fragile ones.
— Arturo Perez-Reverte
You can do and have and be things that people once said that's impossible for you to do and have and be.
— Morris E. Goodman
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
— Halldor Laxness
I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.
— Catherynne M Valente
Every spellbinder has a signature," I said. "Once I learn to recognize that signature, I become immune. They can't make it happen to me after that." I
— Anne Rice
Someone once said that blues and gospel were fraternal twins, close in spirit, neither one wanting to admit how similar they looked.
— Ahmir Questlove Thompson
I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.
— Michael Marshall Smith
Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.
— Donna Lynn Hope
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
— Albert Camus
Some fusty fellow, perhaps Samuel Johnson, had once said that every man was sorry if he hadn't been a soldier. She
— Mary Jo Putney
You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.
— Romy Schneider
Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: "Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Once upon a time, I would have said we choose our paths at random: this happened, then that, hence the other. Now I know better. There are forces.
— Stephen King
Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick.
— Jerry O'Connell
Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."
— Kumi Naidoo
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.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
— Yoshida Kenko
J. P. Morgan once said, If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.
— Douglas Preston
Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
— Carl Sandburg
She always thought Americans were too territorial. 'All those fences and flags,' she had once said, seeing very little difference between the two.
— Dinaw Mengestu
A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.
— Lauryn Hill
I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.
— Ray Romano
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said "sure, every time".
— Mickey Mantle
Once we have our atium, we'll be happy."
"Not to mention rich," Ham added.
"The two words are synonyms, Hammond," Breeze said. — Brandon Sanderson
"Not to mention rich," Ham added.
"The two words are synonyms, Hammond," Breeze said. — Brandon Sanderson
John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'
— Tom Robbins
My father once said I was as gullible as a fish. I thought he said edible. I thought he meant I was tasty. The
— Sharon Creech
The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.
— Roald Dahl
Grip on consciousness slipped as easily and completely as had his hand. "No . . ." he said once more, very weakly. The canopy of trees above
— Charlaine Harris
There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.
— Lisa Gardner
You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?
— J.K. Rowling
My mother once said that when soul mates find each other, from their very first kiss they feel like they've been together forever." Her
— Melissa Foster
As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake.
— Ed Yong
"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."
— Max Beerbohm