They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. Katherine Anne Porter
Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood. Beverly Cleary
Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. Roald Dahl
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman. Ann Beattie
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life. Terry Pratchett
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often. André Weil