Top 100 Everything But Quotes
#1. I don't want to be just comfortable, Mom. I want a love that makes me everything but comfortable. If it doesn't drive me mad, if it doesn't break my heart at the thought of losing it, if it doesn't push me to new places and force me to grow - what kind of love is it, really?
Kandi Steiner
#2. It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, which I begin to believe will never change. There
Suzanne Collins
#3. Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.
Lucinda Williams
#4. I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?
Corey Taylor
#6. Money isn't everything ... but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
Rita Davenport
#7. Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.
James Scott
#8. There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.
Joe Nichols
#9. I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.
Glen Taylor
#10. The vice presidency "ought to be abolished," he told his friend Leonard Wood. "The man who occupies it may at any moment be everything; but meanwhile he is practically nothing.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#11. Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.
Joan Acocella
#13. Bob Ford is a great guy. He's a great friend. He's done a great job at Oakmont and Seminole. He's a very quiet man. He doesn't get in the middle of everything, but he understands what a nice job he's done at both places.
Jack Nicklaus
#14. I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
Alice Neel
#15. We all think we only have to be knocked a little bit off course and we've lost everything, but it's only the start of something new and good. Where there is life, there is happiness. There
Leo Tolstoy
#16. He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Saint Augustine
#17. Academics always feel that they deserve more. (Roberto Bolano)
Reading and enjoying fine literature is a highly cultivated and refined activity, whereas writing it is everything but so.
(xxx)
Kim Leine
#19. When I say I want to possess a woman for a day, maybe a whole weekend, it's like I'm inviting her to a dinner party. I'm making exactly the food I want, serving the drinks I like, planning everything. But she's the guest. Just because I'm in charge doesn't mean I won't serve her a damn good meal.
Cara McKenna
#21. I have done a number of things to keep this man. I have lied and cheated. I have been sexy and meek, fierce and vulnerable. I have been everything but myself.
Tarryn Fisher
#22. Sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air ... They don't seem half so important
L.M. Montgomery
#23. The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.
Rick Warren
#24. I sought peace in everything, but never was I happier than in a corner with a book
Umberto Eco
#25. The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
Lenny Bruce
#26. I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling herself it wasn't fear - it was the wisdom of someone who knew what reality was.
Paulo Coelho
#27. Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.
Somaly Mam
#28. The silence encompassing the feeling so juvenile, veiling everything but a sham smile.
Parul Agrawal
#30. Confidence is everything, but a little makeup can't hurt.
Bobbi Brown
#31. The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.
Richard Armitage
#32. I thought about it for another minute, and then said, "Okay."
"Now that's an okay that really means okay, not that okay that women use when it means everything but okay." I had to laugh then, because he was absolutely right.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#33. There's a lot of people I know who have a lot of synthesisers and they don't really know anything about them, they know the specifications and everything, but they don't really get to know them.
Thighpaulsandra
#34. Afraid of damn near everything. But I refuse to let it paralyze me. I won't be the woman who cowers behind four walls, never taking chances. I want to die like I've lived. I always wanted to be larger than life.
Ann Aguirre
#37. People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.
Cindy Sheehan
#38. By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
Jerry Rubin
#39. Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case.
Russell Banks
#40. There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#41. Don't get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder's container idea: Notice everything, but don't buy into it. Hold it.
Heather Sellers
#42. There are two groups of people in this world; first, those who have everything but nothing and second, those who have nothing but everything.
M.F. Moonzajer
#43. I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.
Dorothy Parker
#44. Sunshine, I'm going to kiss you. I can't stop. I know it will change everything. But I can't not kiss you. Not for one more minute.
Amie Knight
#45. Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing
Anthony Jones
#46. Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
Jane Austen
#47. Blinding light. Perfect black. Ringing like a million mouths, screaming, singing. Body instantly and utterly gone. Gone the rain. Gone the mob. Gone her own mind and will. Gone everything but a single voice,
Brian Staveley
#48. We're so intelligent now that we're too smart to survive. We're so well informed that we lost all sense of meaning. We know the price of everything, but we've lost all sense of value. We have everyone under surveillance, but we've lost all sense of shame.
Bruce Sterling
#49. The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.
Steve Lawson
#50. Everything starts out as just friends, right? Everything. But then things change and suddenly you're in love with someone and your whole world is flipped upside down ... But you always have good intentions. Everything always starts out as just friends.
Alysha Speer
#51. My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.
Billy Eckstine
#52. You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.
Osho
#53. I know how big Blink are and I know the legacy with it and everything, but Angels & Airwaves, to my heart and to the people who like it, this is the release of my life.
Tom DeLonge
#54. I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out to dry there, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.
Maria Semple
#55. I remember everything but forgive anyway.
Erica Jong
#56. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something
Max Lucado
#57. When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
Theophilus London
#58. Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it.
Bisco Hatori
#59. Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
Jack Bruce
#61. (Later, Giddle's response when I told her I was in love: "Oh God, I'm so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it's so disappointing. But good luck with that.")
Rachel Kushner
#62. We need not agree on everything, but we must find a way to handle our differences so that they do not become divisive.
Gary Chapman
#63. Money isn't everything, but you'll never convince money.
Marty Rubin
#64. Dr. Edward Clarke, a Harvard professor, said it was possible for a girl to study hard and do well in everything, but it would damage her health for the rest of her life, and her children would be shriveled.
Jacky Fleming
#65. I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#66. I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up.
- Ruth Mendenberg
Carol Matas
#67. If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.
Barbara Boxer
#68. Our romantic impulses are continually renewed. We blame everything but our hopes.
The School Of Life
#69. The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
Joanne Harris
#70. What kind of person does it make me if I accept words I know are lies? Because I know they are. He's absolutely honest with me about everything but loyalty.
Mary Elizabeth
#71. I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.
Colin Thompson
#72. She often felt a nostalgia for the present, aware that her life was passing by faster than she could properly take it in. She lived it, she felt it; she had given nothing to age, she still wanted everything; but she could not make it whole or coherent.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#73. I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but no limits. But you let people decide.The other is just have a national public system.
David Brooks
#74. There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.
Lydia Sigourney
#75. It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
Nathanael Emmons
#76. Even with Dream Theater, we track in a big studio and everything. But when it comes to doing leads, I don't really require a lot of studio to do that. I need a good sounding room and a Pro Tools rig, and some Neve mic-pres, and I'm good.
John Petrucci
#77. To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
Benjamin Disraeli
#78. I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.
Tony Judt
#79. I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.
John Cusack
#80. The department was set up primarily to protect us from another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists, and yet they talk about everything but that.
Peter T. King
#81. He was enthusiastic about everything, but when she came in with the pie he grew positively lyrical.
James M. Cain
#82. I've lived in many things - boats, caravans, and buses. I've been homeless, I've had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.
Neon Hitch
#83. We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
Samantha Harvey
#84. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.
B.J. Novak
#85. I kiss her mouth and I know ... for everything there is a word ... for everything but this.
Ryan Adams
#86. For spring is just around the corner and I have forgotten everything but gladness.
L.M. Montgomery
#87. Sex may not be the answer to everything, but it's also not the worst answer to a lot of things.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#88. Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
William James
#89. I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.
Jason Mewes
#90. Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.
James Crumley
#91. What a strange world this was, that I could come here to lose everything about myself, and instead lose everything but me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#92. Miffed, I poked him in the chest. 'You think you know everything?'
His hands caressed my back. 'Not everything, but some things. I knew without a doubt I'd fallen in love when we met. Then I knew I'd do anything to make you feel the same way.
Jeaniene Frost
#93. I've tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a mental touch and not a physical touch.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#94. I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.
Dave Navarro
#95. I've always weaseled my way into Grammy parties to network and everything, but now I have a legitimate reason to be there - it's so cool.
Charlie Puth
#97. Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.
Agnes Denes
#98. American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
Will Rogers
#99. Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can't know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die? ... Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
David Almond
#100. I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
Twyla Tharp
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