I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
When love dies, the heart's ashes do not leave on the wind—they rest on the mantelpiece of the soul, darkening the sunrise we once saw to be beautiful.
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.
A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.
I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.
Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be
I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
Once you get into your thirties, you stop giving a fuck what people think about your opinions. You're more confident.
I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.
Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity
