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Once again, there was talk of winning every game, and once again, we proved to be human, because an oblong ball takes funny bounces.
— Michael Pinball Clemons
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.
— Charlotte Bronte
If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.
— Pete Sampras
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
— Carol Burnett
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The misfortune of man is that he was once a child.
— Frantz Fanon
I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Once I was satisfied I knew it, I handed it to Adrian and shot him a hopeful look. "Wish me luck," I said. "You make your own luck," he replied.
— Richelle Mead
I gave up drinking once
it was the worst afternoon of my entire life. — Humphrey Bogart
it was the worst afternoon of my entire life. — Humphrey Bogart
Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.
— Misty Copeland
All my wife does is shop - once she was sick for a week, and three stores went under.
— Henny Youngman
At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.
— Robert Kiyosaki
And I was reminded once again how a song really can change the world.
— Mark Peter Hughes
Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.
— Jamie Redknapp
If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.
— Whoopi Goldberg
Beside her, Adam was once again retreating inside himself, most interested, as always, in the thing that remained unknowable to him: his own mind.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
A wise man was once asked what was the most difficult truth in life to uncover. His reply was: 'to know thyself'.
— Jean Sasson
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
— Mark Haddon
What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
— Jonathan Franzen
What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.
— Hillary Clinton
It was only a button. It was only a bit of thread. From a wrinkled blue dress I had once undone.
— Lily King
Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
— Robert Gottlieb
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
— Martial
I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation
— Alan Bradley
Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it. He
— Clifford D. Simak
I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.
— Jack Redmond
I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.
— Peter Diamandis
Troy and I loved each other. We called it 'unconditional love', which was true. Once conditions arose, the love dissipated.
— Joseph Fink
Once I was born, her hopes had turned and I had climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun
— Dorothy Allison
I was adored once too.
— William Shakespeare
I stood and watched
the final sunset as the
world was ending
light that once would fall
was now ascending — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
the final sunset as the
world was ending
light that once would fall
was now ascending — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year ... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
— Bob Uecker
I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
— Dana Carvey
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
— G.K. Chesterton
What was once your pain, will be your home.
— Emily Saliers
It was once a house of God, but not after that terrible night. It changed; they let that woman in and it changed their lives for ever.
— Helen Phifer
Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform.
— Tim Winton
Once more I struck out into the ocean of space, heading for another near star. Once more I was disappointed.
— Olaf Stapledon
I was in love once, and it was terrible.
— Gloria Trevi
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he
— Walter Bower
Maybe a story will cheer you up ... Once upon a time there was an ugly barnacle. It was so ugly that everyone died. The end.
— Patrick Star
Lou had a memory like an elephant; it took a lot to cause her to hold a grudge, but once she achieved it, it was even harder for her to let go.
— Robyn Carr
....you only get one chance at sharing a soul, but that once was enough if it was the right soul.
— Heather R. Blair
Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.
— James Patterson
We just hold each other. Where I was once lost, he's found me. But I know now that I have only begun to truly discover Chris. He's still lost.
— Lisa Renee Jones
Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.
— William J. Federer
Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.
— Alastair Campbell
And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.
— J. Courtney Sullivan
There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.
— Elizabeth Leiknes
Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.
— Michel Faber
Once I got in the public eye there was no going back.
— Shayne Ward
I couldn't speak, for once in my life. I was terrified of seeing him again; and I would rather have shaved my head than not see him again.
— Charlaine Harris
One is only young once, but in her case it was once to often.
— Louis De Bernieres
Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward ... once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.
— Barbara Gittings
Someone once said that democracy was the flawed solution to a perfect mess ...
— Andrew J. Robinson
What was once your crown will now be your collar, and you will wear it until you learn what it is to submit.
— Ava Sinclair
Sometimes we just have to stop and feel the pulse of the Earth, the rhythm of the seasons and the internal voice that was once our childhood friend.
— Fennel Hudson
The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
— Ethan Zuckerman
I can't be as flip as I once was.
— Jimmy Kimmel
Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey
— Thom Yorke
One of the best T-shirts I ever saw,said: i was happy once,but i'm better now.
— Michael Thomas Ford
She knew he was as attracted to her as she was to him, yet he wouldn't go there. Not even once they'd stopped
— Kaylea Cross
Be my friends against the day I shall be on the brink of hell, as I was once before
— Alain-Fournier
bitchy when required, and entertainment director once I was able. I may never find the words of gratitude equal to all Sam did.
— Genna Rulon
Every professional was once an amateur.
— Alexander Pope
Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.
— John McKnight
Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
— Aaron Tveit
I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.
— Sid Waddell
I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
— Charles M. Schwab
Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.
— Terry Pratchett
Until then, there is joy, which by the way does not, as was once thought, require contrast with fear and pain to keep its zing.
— Dean Koontz
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
— Dave Grohl
He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it.
— Arnaldur Indridason
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.
— Emily Giffin
See, I saw someone get strangled once when I was 9.
— L.T. Vargus
At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.
— Jack London
The best moment for a box of chocolates was before you bit into one. Once you knew it was coconut, the magic was over.
— Diane Hammond
Once upon a time,
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America
Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America
Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen
And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
— Wallace Shawn
Once more Isambard looked completely terrified. Twice in one night! This was going to be a diary entry for the ages.
— Lia Habel
It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on.
— Jacqueline Carey
Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.
— Raj Kapoor
It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.
— Fred Allen
I was once arrested for resisting arrest.
— Steven Wright