Top 100 About Someone Quotes
#1. You're curious about someone, or why they're doing what they're doing. Because everyone who gets to work in this field is so lucky, and it's such a rarified world, I understand that. At the end of the day, I'm interested in demystifying it.
Joan Cusack
#2. That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.
Tim Relf
#3. Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.
Prince Andrew
#4. It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
Chuck Close
#5. There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
Eddie Vedder
#6. I thought love was about caring about someone day in and day out, about being there when it's fucking amazing, and still wanting to be there when it feels like crap. i thought it was about for ever' -will, calling romeo
Alexandra Potter
#7. There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.
Mike White
#8. In this world, you were either strong, or you were dead. you did what you had to if you wanted to survive. And i could barely take care of myself; i couldn't worry about someone else's insecurities.
Julie Kagawa
#9. A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
Paul Theroux
#10. One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.
Matt Ross
#11. Caring too much about someone can make you lose your own limits.
M.F. Moonzajer
#12. The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.
Alan Alda
#13. Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.
Jodi Picoult
#14. I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like ... I would definitely do that.
Jack White
#15. What could you say about someone who walked daily into his grief and lived at the bottom of its hole and didn't even want to come out?
Marie Rutkoski
#16. Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
Deborah Reber
#17. Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'
Frans De Waal
#18. Maybe the point of I love you is that it is a tether. A connection so you can find your way back to someone even when shit seems huge and unmanageable on your own. A promise to help just because you care about someone, a promise to help that doesn't mean pulling away.
Roan Parrish
#19. You can love anyone. Love is just caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like that
person matters to you, like your whole world would be sadder without them in it.
Anna Carey
#20. Sometimes you just get a feeling about someone and that feeling is worth more than all of the little things put together.
J. Saman
#21. If you talk about someone behind their back, doesn't that mean you are in front of them?
Jordan Smith
#22. A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.
Paulo Coelho
#23. It's as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.
Ransom Riggs
#24. I don't trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they're going to get tired of me and take off.
Rainbow Rowell
#25. As a knight, I was bound to believe the best about someone until proven otherwise.
Jody Hedlund
#26. Nothing's going to change if you're just thinking about it. No matter how much you worry about someone else's problems.... you can't fix it for them.
Inio Asano
#27. You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on water -typical Capricorn.
Harry Hill
#28. Sometimes you're crazy enough about someone to protect them even from yourself.
Deborah Cooke
#29. If being a saint is complete devotion to a cause, bravery and altruism, then I think Mrs Sendlerowa fulfils all the conditions.I think about her the way you think about someone you owe your life to.
Irena Sendler
#30. It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.
Larry Wilcox
#31. And what about someone like Jack the Ripper? Does God love him too?" Archer stopped and held my gaze. "A man chooses what he becomes, and he must accept responsibility for his choices." "You didn't answer my question." "I don't know how to.
April White
#32. Mostly, we think that a self-expressive person is egotistical. That may be true but what about someone who refrains from expressing himself to protect his ego from bruised?
Assegid Habtewold
#33. An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
Daniel Keys Moran
#34. What is it about someone genuine that makes other people want to crucify him in some tiny-seeming way? Someone has probably written the reason down in a book. But no one takes any notice, if we do know.
Elizabeth Harrower
#35. People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.
Amanda Bynes
#36. A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just ... overwhelms you.
Sophie Kinsella
#37. Just when you thought you knew everything about someone, they had to go one better.
Lindsey Kelk
#38. What is it about someone else's tragedy that brings out this behavior in otherwise average people?
Phillip Hall
#39. Mind you, you don't get albums written about really good people like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, do you? Good people's places in Heaven may be assured, but nobody's going to have a chart-topping album full of songs about someone's good deeds.
Mitch Winehouse
#40. How can you say bad things about someone you don't know?" I shout. "How can you hate a stranger? Why do you have to pick on people?" she's not better than Yaqui. It's like everywhere there's a bully in my face.
Meg Medina
#41. You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.
Anthony Bourdain
#42. I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.
Pedro Almodovar
#43. When you're head over heels about someone, it's a real painkiller. You almost wonder why doctors don't recommend it more.
Victor Lodato
#44. Caring about someone doesn't mean taking care of them.
Amy Harmon
#45. She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing.
Gayle Forman
#46. You wouldn't believe how fast people can forget about someone.
Ally Condie
#47. I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singing about my own inabilities to be as bright as that person.
Alexis Taylor
#48. As we strive to understand issues in their social, political and economic contexts, we are better able to move away from individualizing problems and making them about someone's character flaw. We also become less likely to pathologize women and more likely to understand how and why things work.
Brene Brown
#49. I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#50. Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
Sarah Dessen
#51. You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.
Sharon Salzberg
#52. People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.
Taylor Swift
#53. It seemed to Ellie that you could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret - by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.
Jennifer E. Smith
#54. If nothing is more important to you than that you feel good, you can form a fantasy about someone who is in your life and they will begin to modify to meet your fantasy, because Law of Attraction is a very powerful thing.
Esther Hicks
#55. One of my favorite things on the show was just getting to do my own monologue and talking about someone who killed themselves, or making a joke about some horrible tragedy - I love being able to fight for and get on TV. I just think it's so different.
Anthony Jeselnik
#56. I always said I would have gone in to psychology, or maybe the FBI. I'm really in to and interested in humans and their minds and emotions. I think that's another reason I like songwriting. It's amazing the stories you can tell about someone, just from a little people watching
Jessica Harp
#57. Personally, I would rather have a boy notice the book I was reading and tell me he liked it, too. That seems like a better sign of caring about someone than a kiss some French guy invented.
Karen Harrington
#58. It doesn't matter how many people are thinking negatively about someone; if that person is in joy those thoughts can never reach them, because they are on a different frequency. Instead, all the negative thoughts will multiply and return to the people who were thinking them.
Rhonda Byrne
#59. Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right.
Jack Barakat
#60. It's an odd thing to be sad about someone in death that you never really cared for in life and a thing that chooses its own moment to sneak up on you - usually
Mark Lawrence
#61. Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.
Melissa McCarthy
#62. If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called status cling.
Jessica Park
#63. Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know
Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#64. You took away the numbness. You made me remember how to feel, how to care about someone other than myself.
Kelly Oram
#65. Whenever I cared about someone, I imagined them leaving - the words they'd say, the way it would feel when they left. I thought if I prepared myself, it would be easier when it finally happened.
Kami Garcia
#66. I'm worried about myself, not anybody else. I have my goals and I'm not worried about anyone. I need to take care of myself before I worry about someone else.
Ricky Carmichael
#67. The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.
Phil Knight
#68. When you are young, feelings are your truth. Love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them.
Kate Kerrigan
#69. It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.
Keri Hilson
#70. I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.
John Mulaney
#71. Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating.
James Oswald
#72. I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.
Stef Penney
#73. When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."
Amy Dickinson
#74. A ten-year-old boy doesn't want a hyper-dexterous giant to choke, just as a ten-year-old girl doesn't feel good when Britney Spears has a nervous breakdown on live TV. Only an adult can feel good about someone else's failure.
Chuck Klosterman
#75. When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.
Michael Koryta
#76. The minute that you start thinking about someone in the whole circumstance of his life to the extent that you can, he becomes mysterious, immediately.
Marilynne Robinson
#77. Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.
Drew Carey
#78. If this was what caring about someone was like, what the hell was he supposed to do? Because he couldn't handle it, couldn't live like this.
Kelly Moran
#79. There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought
you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.
Jennifer DuBois
#80. We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.
Aesop
#81. When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
Missy Elliott
#82. When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.
Neal Shusterman
#83. I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates.
Henning Mankell
#84. I hate it when discovering something wonderful about someone else requires me discovering something pathetic about myself.
Kristen Chandler
#85. We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.
Kelli O'Hara
#86. To say, 'he lacks understanding', about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed).
Dada Bhagwan
#87. Some people are racist. Some people are jealous. Some people are just fucking ignorant, she says, her eyes coming up to meet mine as her fingers let go of my shirt. Don't let someone else dictate how your heart feels about someone
Ginger Scott
#88. Do not you realize you're talking to another person's ugliness yourself when you're talking about someone else?
Mochamad Fathurizqon Mutiudin
#89. Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her spirit, are simply trying to hide their fragile egos.
Emma Paul
#90. What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
Ann Brashares
#91. Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.
Nick Denton
#92. Forgot about carin' about someone so much you would do everything in your power to stop them having' pain."
...
"And how fuckin' shitty it feels then there's nothin' you can do to stop it
Kristen Ashley
#93. Anker's was low-class enough so that the drinks were cheap, but high-class enough so that you didn't have to worry about someone picking a fight or throwing up on you. I liked it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#94. Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?
Julia Sweeney
#95. The saddest part of life will never be about you, but about someone else's death. The
Dinah McCall
#96. Is that love, do you think?" he asks, sounding genuinely curious. "Being crazy about someone no matter how much they hurt you?
Stacey Jay
#97. Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.
John Green
#98. the realization that I'm the boy so concerned about someone pulling out my chair, I never considered my heart would be pulled out instead.
Anthony Paull
#99. Someone will care if you just give 'em a chance. There's always people who need you as much as you need them. Don't you forget that. All you got to do is find 'em. And when you do, you find you're happier carin' about someone else than just about yourself all the time.
Ester Wier
#100. I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.
Larry King
