Top 100 Be Something Quotes
#1. Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
Oswald Chambers
#2. I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.
Francis Ford Coppola
#3. There will always be something scary in the world. You must choose whether or not to let it frighten you.
The Venger Breegan,
Quest for Evil: The Magic of the Key by Jenna Lindsey
Jenna Lindsey
#4. I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
Lindsay Lohan
#5. When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.
Jim Woodring
#6. Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been. "If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know . . ." (John 7:17).
Oswald Chambers
#7. We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#8. Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
Hal Lindsey
#9. Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?
Chelsea Handler
#10. The last few years had taught her that, bizarrely, there might be more to life than money, heists, and adrenaline. A crazy idea, no kidding, and she wasn't entirely convinced yet, but maybe, just maybe, she could be something more than a thief?
Greg Cox
#11. Maybe it will be something exclusively for me, to remind myself that believing in ridiculous things isn't always so bad.
Aaron Starmer
#12. I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
William Goldman
#13. I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.
Elia Suleiman
#14. If Frank and I tried to be something, it would be *real*, in a way that was scary - but also really exciting -Emily
Morgan Matson
#15. In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
Seamus Heaney
#16. Or maybe it was too late, and I had already chosen, inadvertently and incrementally, to be something else.
Ariel Levy
#17. You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.
Steven C. Hawthorne
#18. Sudden moisture burned against the back of his eyelids. He blinked it away before crushing his lips to hers, focusing all of his emotion on the joining of their mouths.
No matter what happened tomorrow, he hoped tonight, this moment, would be something she would never forget.
Rosalie Lario
#19. I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
Edie Falco
#20. Be a Communist, a stamp collector, or a Ladies' Aid worker if you must, but for heaven's sake, be something.
Majorie Hillis
#21. The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.
Julia Child
#22. One dwells with God by being faithful to one's nature. One crosses God by trying to be something one is not. Reality-including one's own-is divine, to be not defied but honored.
Parker J. Palmer
#23. Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.
Idris Elba
#24. Your fingernails are a joke, you've got no fangs, you can't see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are nil, and you don't even have tails! Of course people aren't content! ... Now if tigers weren't content, that would be something to wonder about.
Bill Watterson
#25. Being human in a world with no tolerance for humanity felt like a setup, a game I couldn't win. But instead of understanding that there might be something wrong with the world, I decided there was something wrong with me.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#26. We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been
Alastair Reynolds
#27. If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.
Ann Jillian
#28. You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that's not authentically you.
Caroline Myss
#29. Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
Chogyam Trungpa
#31. As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.
Jack Kornfield
#32. I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems ... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
Elon Musk
#33. When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be want what, in fact, will not make us happy.
C.S. Lewis
#34. This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.
Kent Haruf
#35. It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.
Cassandra Clare
#37. Isn't it funny how trusting husbands are? How easily they eat the food put in front of them by their wives, without ever wondering if there might be something wrong with it.
You could mix anything in it, and they would never know.
Sudha Kuruganti
#38. I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.
Paul Theroux
#39. The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
C.S. Lewis
#40. If there were something that I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers.
Justin Timberlake
#41. I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.
Larisa Oleynik
#42. Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'
Jill Soloway
#43. Well, how could a reader notice that? There may be something lacking there I admit. But heavens above, they ought to count themselves lucky! It's full enough of good things as it is, far more than they usually get.
Marcel Proust
#44. Clean and acceptable. It would be something to know what that felt like, even for an hour or two.
Marilynne Robinson
#45. The reality, Haung knew, would be something quite different. From a distance, civilisation looks clean and desirable. Up close, the shine is dulled by self-interest and tarnished by greed.
G.R. Matthews
#46. Because sometimes, even when you see someone headed for a collision, all you can do is step out of the way and let it happen, hoping there will be something left to salvage after the wreckage is cleared.
Mandy Hale
#47. When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?
Ike Turner
#48. Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.
Edward Hirsch
#49. You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
Waka Flocka Flame
#50. Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.
Elvis Presley
#51. So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
Allen Tate
#52. War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
Salman Rushdie
#53. To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
Iain De Caestecker
#55. There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
Karen Elson
#56. Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
Johan Huizinga
#57. The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.
Courtney Love
#58. We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.
David Milne
#59. Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.
Jaime Winstone
#60. I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.
Melissa McCarthy
#61. I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.
John Malkovich
#62. Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
Andy Stanley
#63. I'm not sure I'll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should've said.
Megan McCafferty
#64. I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
William Golding
#65. We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.
Dolly Wells
#66. At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
Francois Truffaut
#67. We've always been fighters. There will always be something to fight against. So we'll always fight, underdogs or not. If you put a wall in front of us, we don't look to go round it. We just bust straight through.
Gerard Way
#68. There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
William Bolcom
#69. The essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.
Ann Bridge
#70. Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can't. Because we don't really believe we can die.
Deb Olin Unferth
#71. Suffering happens when we expect life to be something more and different than what it is in the present moment. When we let go of all expectations, there is peace.
Kim Eng
#72. I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.
Gerald Fischbach
#73. I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
Nia Long
#74. If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
Gloria Steinem
#75. A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
J.B. Priestley
#76. My taste in both is pretty eclectic. I do encourage people to try new and different kinds of tea if they can - there are so many different sorts, and so many, flavored or not, and there's bound to be something you like. The same with choral music, really.
Ann Leckie
#77. Love has to be more than something we feel. It has to be something we do. We have to demonstrate it concretely in our marriage, our family, among our friends and acquaintances, and, yes, even among our enemies.
Gary Chapman
#78. Not every breakfast needs to be something worthy of posting to a food blog. Sometimes food is simply fuel, something we eat to live. But with TV ads and billboards and in-store displays saying otherwise - in colorful and provocative ways - that can be a hard case to make.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#79. Because the truth is that now that he's here, she can't imagine it any other way. Now that he's here, she worries that crossing an entire ocean with someone between them might be something like torture.
Jennifer E. Smith
#80. There's got to be something greater than us.
Ajay Naidu
#81. 'Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy.
Aeriel Miranda
#82. There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
Ann Patchett
#83. To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#84. You're the only girl I've ever touched. And I feel like it
was supposed to be that way. I touch you and my whole body ... rings. Like a bell or something. And I
could touch other girls, and maybe there would be something, you know, like maybe there would be
noise. But not like with you.
Rainbow Rowell
#85. You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.
Tom Wilkinson
#86. After we shot the first 'Twilight,' we organized our own wrap party. We really didn't know what this was going to be. Something like that can come at you unexpectedly, and you just have to try your best to deal with it.
Anna Kendrick
#87. I think a great first date would be something different ... not like movies or going to dinner ... going rock climbing together ... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
Madeline Zima
#88. I am Not The Best, But I Have The Potential To Be Something Great.
Anderson Silva
#89. I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each other and, with a common grief, grow far apart. There must be something in the nature of love between a man and a woman that drove them to torment and suspicion.
Daphne Du Maurier
#90. To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."
William Vickrey
#91. People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
John Steinbeck
#92. It seemed unfair to me that people couldn't be something else just by working at it hard, by saying it over and over.
Emily Fridlund
#93. I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.
Alexander Ludwig
#94. I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.
Nicholas Stoller
#95. In a few short weeks, mock-marital status had ceased to be something to aspire to, and had become a cause for scorn. At seventeen, we were becoming as embittered and as unromantic as our parents.
Nick Hornby
#97. Home can be something as vast as a country, as holy as a temple, or as simple as a cake.
Elizabeth Bard
#98. I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Javan
#99. Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#100. I used to think there was something up with any female that liked me, I mean, if she didni get bored with my company, there had to be something up with her. Otherwise how come she wasni with somebody else? If she was normal she would be. Ergo she had to have a personality problem.
James Kelman
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