E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.”
“Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.”
“Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.”
“Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself.”
“Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?”
“Every once in awhile try to do something nice for somebody you don't know, even if it's just leaving an opening in traffic for them to merge into, small things like that give people hope that we're not all assholes.”
“Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it”
“Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.”
“Every once in awhile, Allison Abbate would drop a note and say, "It's going really well!," and I was like, "Great!" So, I had not seen it in about two years. They went off and started shooting, and I saw it all put together with almost the final sound mix and it was remarkable. I was so, so happy and relieved, not in the sense that I thought something had gone wrong, but you just don't know what something is going to be like until you see it put together. Everyone stepped up and brought their A+ game.”
“Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do I respect myself?” A corollary to this question: “Do I respect the work I’m doing?” If the answer to the latter question is NO, then the answer to the former question will probably be NO too. If this is the case, wait a few weeks, then ask yourself the same two questions. If the answers are still NO, quit.”
“Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.”
“Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.”
“Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!”
“Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“Every one can remember that which has interested himself.”
“Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.”
“Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.”
“Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.”
“Every one excels in something in which another fails.”
“Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.”
“Every one fastens where there is gaine.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Every one follows his own bent. Man is like a tree. You’ve never quarrelled with a fig tree because it doesn’t bear cherries, have you?”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.”
“Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.”
“Every one has a level of influence that can be harnessed for greater good”
“Every one has a relative that they are ashamed of.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.”
Source: How We Think: Top American Authors
“Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn't love, it happens.”
“Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.”
“Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.”
“Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.”
“Every one in his own house and God in all of them.”
“Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them.”
Source: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson: During the Last Twenty Years of His Life
“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”
Source: The Diary of a Drug Fiend
“Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.”
“Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.”
“Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable or mineral life. Every idea is matter, so of course it contains life in the name of something that can be changed. Motion, or change, is life. Ideas have life. A belief has life, or matter; for it can be changed. Now, all the aforesaid make up man; and all this can be changed.”
“Every one is more or less master of his own fate.”
Source: Three Hundred Æsop's Fables
“Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads.”
“Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality”
Source: Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc
“Every one is witty for his owne purpose.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
“Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“Every one know the series, Only usage of cards identify the winner.”
“Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.”
Source: Modes and Morals