quotes about Now And Then
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.
-- Alexander Chee -
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
-- Alfred Nobel -
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I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
-- Andrew Breitbart -
The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
-- Ariel DurantSource : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1975). “The Story of Civilization: The age of Napoleon; a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815”
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Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
-- Barry Hughart -
Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
-- Billy Joel -
Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.
-- Bob Seger -
Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.
-- Charles Proteus Steinmetz -
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You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
-- Christopher MarloweSource : "The Plays".
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Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.
-- Collin RayeSource : Song: Love, Me
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We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then. --Beldin
-- David EddingsSource : "The Seeress of Kell".
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I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.
-- Dennis Ritchie -
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As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
-- Dik Browne -
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
-- E. V. Lucas -
I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
-- Eddie Redmayne -
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All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
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A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
-- Fanny BurneySource : Camilla bk. 3, ch. 11 (1796)
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
-- George Jean Nathan -
I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.
-- Gifford PinchotSource : Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.137, Island Press
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Now and then, there's a fool such as I.
-- Hank SnowSource : Song: (Now and Then, There's) A Fool Such As I
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Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.
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Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The mob will now and then see things in a right light.
-- Horace -
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.
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What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?
-- Jacqueline Carey -
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
-- James Laughlin -
Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?
-- Jane Pauley -
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Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.
-- Jerry Lee Lewis -
Every now and then they threw one where I was swinging.
-- Jim Kaat -
Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.
-- Johnny Winter -
I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.
-- Jonathan PryceSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Every now and then we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time you fall, you're the best friend that I've found.
-- Jordan HillSource : Song: Remember Me This Way, Album: Jordan Hill, 1996
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I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.
-- Justin Smiley -
I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldnt say I have a major sweet tooth.
-- Larry Fitzgerald -
Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.
-- Lita Ford -
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The age I'm at now... you go from being a young girl to suddenly, you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot!
-- Liv Tyler -
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
-- Lord Byron -
True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.
-- Mariah Carey -
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it
-- Max von Sydow -
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I don't know if it's a stare or if it's something I do with my eyes when I'm really focused in on someone or something. Apparently it comes out every now and then,
-- Michael Trevino -
I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
-- Naomi CampbellSource : "Naomi Campbell reveals extreme beauty regime on Oprah Winfrey slot" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2010.
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Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.
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We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it...
-- Neil StraussSource : Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.398, Canongate Books
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It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
There's a narrow bit which is still possible, which is left from all of the ones you can't do right now, and then you make the best out of that. You wouldn't have done that by yourself at any other moment of time.
-- Nils Frahm -
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.
-- Norman Maclean -
I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
-- Oliver ReedSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
-- Pablo Picasso -
I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.
-- Paul ScheerSource : "Paul Scheer picks his favorite How Did This Get Made? episodes". Interview with Nathan Rabin, aux.avclub.com. February 7, 2013.
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No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.
-- Peter Handke -
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.
-- Philip Guston -
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A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
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Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.
-- Ransom RiggsSource : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.348, Quirk Books
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
-- Richard Armour -
Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
-- Robert Adams -
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
-- Roberto Bolano -
It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.
-- Sean Connery -
I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.
-- Shailene Woodley -
Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is...
-- Stan Freberg -
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
-- Stephen Leacock -
Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
-- Stephen Sondheim -
I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
-- T-Pain -
In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
-- Tanith Lee -
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Ill watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.
-- Terrell Owens -
I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.
-- William DampierSource : William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.92, tredition
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
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Every now and then we could steal somebody else's stuff.
-- Al KooperSource : "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in the Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.
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One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.
-- Gavin HoodSource : Source: collider.com
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Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.
-- Tim Hudson -
I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do.
-- Brad Williams -
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Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.
-- Brad Williams -
The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.
-- Arian FosterSource : "'Cerebral' Houston RB Arian Foster goes from undrafted to unstoppable". www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2010.
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Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.
-- Georg Ebers -