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Often Quotes (page 62)

Marilyn Monroe quote: "I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my..."
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. Marilyn Monroe
I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be. Doug Coupland
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. Jonathan Lethem
Bertrand Russell quote: "We love our habits more than our income, often more than our..."
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life. Bertrand Russell
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. Carson McCullers
Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space. Marilyn Manson
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies. Alan Moore
The young man, who intends no ill,Believes that none is intended, and thereforeActs with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it. Samuel Johnson
For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank. William S. Burroughs
Joseph Goebbels quote: "If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth."
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels
It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct. She often ended by giving up to them --it seemed really the way to live --the version that met their convenience. Henry James
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Freedom is often the first casualty of war."
Freedom is often the first casualty of war. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. Charles Dickens
If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to pass your enthusiasm to a child. Find a child and read to it often the things you admire, not being afraid to read the classics. Robert MacNeil
There was no moon at all, and a faint silver peppering of starts fardly showed through the scrim of high clouds. The sea itself seemed to give off light, a spectral, colorless light that was more like the sea's breath. The night was soft and thick and black and warm as velvet, silky on my skin, smelling of iodine and salt and crepe myrtle and that ineffable, skin-prickling saline emanation that says 'ocean' to me whenever I smell it, hundreds of miles inland. It always moves me close to... Anne Rivers Siddons

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