Top 100 Quotes About Looking For Something
#1. Stop looking for something when something has already found you. You have been living with your eyes closed. Awaken, it's there. Take it, it's yours.
Robert M. Drake
#2. I'm tired of looking for something that will never be there. I've looked for it on the edge of a blade and at the bottom of a bottle. It's not there. It's just ... gone.
Kathryn Perez
#3. I was in oil when oil was $8 a barrel and in construction when interest rates were 20 percent. I was looking for something everyone used and where you could build a customer base - and if it was successful, you could take it nationwide and even worldwide.
Kenny Troutt
#4. Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.
Meher Baba
#5. I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.
Tiesto
#6. I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.
Paul Weller
#7. When you stop looking for something, you see it right in front of you.
Eleanor Coppola
#8. I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not typical, with a lot of heart, not an easy sell of a movie, not real commercial. It doesn't have to be a big movie, but I'm just looking for something that I really, truly, 100 percent believe in and am behind.
Missy Peregrym
#9. We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
Eugene Ionesco
#10. I like pursuing new endeavors. That's part of the reason I wanted to direct. I like to create things. I'm a Gemini. I'm always looking for something new.
Chris Evans
#11. You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.
Diana Nyad
#12. You three looking for something specific?" Her voice was surprisingly melodious.
"Any sacrificial knives?" Hi raised an index finger. "Nothing too fancy, and I'll need a no-slip grip. Me and the coven have some goats lined up for Saturday's bonfire."
I could've kicked him. I think I tried.
Kathy Reichs
#13. As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
Jeff Bridges
#14. New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something
Lindsey Kelk
#15. It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before.
Thomas Jane
#16. Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.
Jose Ferreira
#17. When people go looking for something, they often find something else.
Paul McAuley
#18. Vincent laughed. "No, you still need to look like a Helian."
"So I should burn everything to a crisp?"
"Well, that would definitely get your mother's attention, but I think that she's looking for something more sophisticated and less ... scary.
Heather James
#20. I feel like I'm at a point in my career where I'm looking for something else to sink my teeth into that's interesting to me, that I can do that I can feel like I'm turning another corner.
Ryan Montgomery
#21. I can't begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.
Shelby Foote
#22. There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.
Carrie Newcomer
#23. You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.
Kendall Jenner
#24. Early summer fireflies are beginning to dance above the spindly green stalks of weeds like lonesome boys looking for something beautiful and shiny to flash back at them. Lovers looking for someone to love.
Holly Schindler
#25. I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.
Tove Lo
#26. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.
Brendan Coyle
#27. To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.
Ayya Khema
#28. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.
Brandon Routh
#29. We're close to where the nature preserve starts now, Charlotte says to Henry. The magic begins here. Can you feel it? She suspects he probably can't. She walks here daily, looking for something, peace mostly. The forest gives her more than she comes looking for, every time.
J.J. Brown
#30. Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little creatures. They are really just hungry animals looking for something to eat, and have no intention of ruining your happy hour.
Michael Dickinson
#31. I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.
Brenda Russell
#32. I want to do voiceover for animation, so I am looking to do something along those lines. So, my agent is looking for something in that area, and I think that would be a lot of fun.
Brooke Elliott
#33. One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
Lawrence Block
#34. When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
Gangaji
#35. Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors and readers don't know what they want to read until they read it. Besides, they're always looking for something new.
William Zinsser
#36. If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
Jodi Picoult
#37. People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#38. The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up.
Evan Williams
#39. I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.
Rebecca Ferguson
#40. I am not your mother. I'm not looking for something else from life. I'm not looking for more. I'm not looking for a great adventure. I'm not looking, because I found it. You are my more. You are my great adventure.
Samantha Young
#41. I just don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again, so I'm always looking for something that's going to be challenging and make me nervous every time I start a project.
Logan Lerman
#42. [He] seemed like a kid who was looking for something, looking for something, just didn't know what it was. I was like that once, but then I realized what I was looking for: Money! Ha! Ha hyah, hooh boy! (pg.43)
Jon Krakauer
#43. I thought I was looking for something. Now I get that I was looking for someone. You. I'll go back to school and get my degree because it will make you happy. But also because it will make me the kind of man you want. This all about you, Aurelia. Don't you get that?
Susan Mallery
#44. There's a void inside most people.
It's been created by not being contented with who we are, not being happy with what we have, not being present and looking for something more, better, more exciting out there.
And we've always been trying to fill this void with something external.
Lidiya K.
#45. Sometimes, you're just looking for something that's right.
Renee Carter
#46. Anyone watching me might have thought I was consulting a reference book, I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for something, a version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favorite shoes ... For it was my best self I wanted ...
Ian McEwan
#47. Never give up, no, never give up
If you're looking for something easy
You might as well give it up.
Cat Power
#48. She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.
Iain Pears
#49. Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.
Aprilynne Pike
#50. Sometimes not looking for something is the best way to look for it
Himanshu Chhabra
#51. We're looking for something that sounds like a member of the Republican Party. The reality is, he's playing for the Democratic vote at this point ... but he has to give something to create energy among conservatives.
Steven Frank
#52. A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.
Jason Statham
#53. A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.
Craig Ferguson
#54. We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.
Robert Teeter
#55. At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again.
Shirley Temple
#56. No one seemed to understand. I'd go to movies, see friends, but after a couple days I'd catch myself reading plane schedules, looking for something, someplace to go: a bomb in Afghanistan, a flood in Haiti. I'd become a predator, endlessly gliding in saltwater seas, searching for the scent of blood.
Anderson Cooper
#57. I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
PJ Harvey
#58. I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.
Big Boi
#59. We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Epicurus
#60. It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.
John Fowles
#61. It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.
Marissa Moss
#62. I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
Brendan Coyle
#63. I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
Madonna Ciccone
#64. If you're looking for something more in life, you're likely to find it in something less.
Jeff Yeager
#65. When people think you're trying, they think you're looking for something. And I'm looking for nothing. When
Danielle Pearl
#66. God isn't looking for something brilliant; he's looking for something broken.
Bob Kauflin
#67. Parents who experience pause from "the unnecessary beauty of an ice storm coating trees," while their kids - who "bewilder well," she writes - are simply looking for something to throw.
Durga Chew-Bose
#68. First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
Tea Leoni
#69. I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.
John Noble
#70. When people come to Yoga, they are perhaps coming to it at the end of a long series of alternatives, and they're looking for something that's going to act very quickly. But Yoga is not a quick answer.
Paul Harvey
#71. Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.
Albert Watson
#72. Why wander all over the world looking for something you already have?
Thich Nhat Hanh
#73. Every time I'd go out drinking I was looking for something new. But it was the same every time. I'd wake up in some bed with some person, I had a hangover and a show to do. And the truth is, it was the same every time. But now life is ... pretty interesting without the alcohol.
James Hetfield
#74. Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#75. I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.
Linus Roache
#76. Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the pharmaceutical companies. He's just looking for something to relieve the redness in the center of the country.
Argus Hamilton
#77. I am circling, looking for something within my reach, but beyond my grasp.
Fennel Hudson
#78. Our schedules are so hectic we can't get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history - and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.
Billy Graham
#79. I have seen yoga teachers, almost in frenzy, looking for something new; new postures, breathing exercises, styles of yoga, teachers and so on. But what are they really searching for? Escape from boredom.
Gudjon Bergmann
#80. Always he's looking for something, he's chasing it. Always the neighbour's grass is greener, somewhere else, over the next hill." Her smile was slight. "My grass is green enough.
Susanna Kearsley
#81. People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.
Maggie Cheung
#82. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
Ralph Ellison
#83. I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
Laura Prepon
#84. People are always looking for something new and something to latch on to and to back something from an early stage.
Ella Eyre
#86. I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.
Heather Nova
#87. I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.
Roy Lee
#88. Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.
Paulo Coelho
#89. I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.
Andrew Dominik
#90. One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
John Cage
#91. He slept curled up on the hard rock more soundly than ever he had done on his feather-bed in his own little hole at home. But all night he dreamed of his own house and wandered in his sleep into all his different rooms looking for something that he could not find nor remember what it looked like.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#92. People were evidently looking for something in the mountains that they believed they had lost a long time ago. He never worked out what exactly this was, but over the years he became more and more that the tourists were stumbling not so much after him but after some obscure, insatiable longing.
Robert Seethaler
#93. My nature is ... well ... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.
Vonda Shepard
#94. You can't seem to keep your eyes in one place. I can tell that you're paying attention, but you seem to be looking for something." I
Kiera Cass
#95. Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
Ian McShane
#96. By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.
Mike Love
#97. Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
Laurie Anderson
#98. I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.
Steve Martin
#99. The problem is we're looking for something that doesn't exist. We're looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There is either good art or bad art. Art is never about its content. It's about its scaffolding.
Chris Abani
#100. Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
Mario Batali
