Top 100 Quotes About Somebody
#1. There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.
Will Smith
#2. I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.
Ivan Lendl
#3. I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.
Dave Ramsey
#4. As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.
Patrick Huard
#5. There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be a politician.
Sonakshi Sinha
#6. Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.
Will Sheff
#7. Has that Copperfield no tague! I would do a good deal for you, if you tell me, without lying that somebody had cut it out
Charles Dickens
#8. There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way ... like Holocaust deniers.
Pete Postlethwaite
#9. Home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.
Edna Ferber
#10. I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?
Sonya Hartnett
#11. If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
Gautama Buddha
#12. She holds herself like she matters, laughs like she cares, smiles like she's somebody.
Robin York
#13. Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
Pat Paulsen
#14. I would love to meet my soul mate. I'm always kind of keeping my eyes open for somebody.
Holly Madison
#15. Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
Buzz Aldrin
#16. For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.
David Pogue
#17. Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.
Retief Goosen
#18. What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.
Douglas Booth
#19. There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.
Michael Shermer
#20. As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.
Jodhi May
#21. I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.
Chevy Stevens
#22. My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
Jodie Foster
#23. I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.
Daniel Radcliffe
#24. Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.
Mireille Enos
#25. Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.
Richard M. Nixon
#26. Have the courage and strength to be yourself.
Because there is no other choice.
Do you have a choice of being somebody else?
Yoko Ono
#27. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
Nas
#28. Somebody want to explain to me why those soldiers were shooting each other?'
( ... )'Inbreeding?
Kresley Cole
#29. With these coming children we never relinquish the past. We keep seeing somebody gone in each new one.
Breena Clarke
#30. I have my own tastes and I have my my own ... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.
Regina Spektor
#31. I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor, are expected to really make it up in your imagination. That's not really an ideal way of working.
Hugh Dancy
#32. I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.
Tyler Perry
#33. I ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I don't even really want them all over my album or anything like that.
Jadakiss
#34. I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.
Phil Jackson
#35. Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark.
"A virgin," sputtered another.
"I didn't know they still made them."
"He just did.
Larry Kramer
#36. Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?
Steve Pavlina
#38. I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.
Rose McGowan
#39. I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing ... well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.
Mark Lanegan
#40. Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.
Scilla Elworthy
#41. I could go on and on and on about how we use the word 'place' in so many different ways. About how somebody might ask you 'Where you at?' And they're not asking where are you sitting, where are you living, they're asking: 'How are you doing?
Justin Vernon
#43. Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with ... it feels like the best opportunity that's ever come your way, whether that's in fringe theatre or a really big-budget Hollywood movie.
Andrea Riseborough
#44. The possibility of somebody emerging as a nuclear power or events happening that surprise us on the nuclear age is still a possibility. It always will be because there's an awful lot going on behind the scenes. Our intelligence just has to get better on that score. Peter Goss
Joel C. Rosenberg
#45. If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Matthew Modine
#46. I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.
Ice Cube
#47. If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.
Margaret Kilgallen
#48. I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor ... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.
Ramsey Campbell
#49. I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.
Monica Ali
#50. Small chains wound their way through the trigger guards with little bronze locks at the end of each row. It was like a chain gang for weapons. Some of them might be good, some of them might be bad, but there was no way to tell until somebody picked them up.
Craig Johnson
#51. If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.
Stevie Nicks
#52. My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."
Patricia McConnell
#53. When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
Jackie Chan
#54. Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.
Jane Asher
#55. Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.
Dave Barry
#56. In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.
Gene Simmons
#57. I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.
Louis C.K.
#58. I don't believe too much in originality ... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.
Paterson Ewen
#59. Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.
Toni Morrison
#60. Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it ... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
Katharine Hepburn
#61. If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.
Francis Collins
#62. No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.
James Iha
#63. I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.
Elizabeth Strout
#64. Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
William Safire
#65. This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It's no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It's the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important.
Tim O'Reilly
#66. Many times, when you go to arrest somebody, they pull their gun, and here I am, a federal agent, telling them to drop their gun. But the gun is like that. I give them a split second to drop it, and they drop it. I could have shot them - who is going to complain?
Joe Arpaio
#67. And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.
Edie Brickell
#68. I could pose as a Yahoo rep claiming that there's been some sort of fault, and somebody else is getting your e-mail, and we're going to have to remove your account and reinstall it. So what we'll do is reset the current password that you have - and by the way, what is it?
Kevin Mitnick
#69. I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
Bill Hybels
#70. There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.
Wayne Knight
#71. There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys.
Barack Obama
#72. I'm very close with my fans. I'm very involved with my fans, so I've seen the influence that I can have on a child or on the mind of somebody.
Drake Bell
#73. And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Gordon Parks
#74. The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.
Max Cannon
#75. For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.
David Morse
#76. You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.
Lawrence Weiner
#77. The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.
Michael Dibdin
#78. In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.
Lamar Odom
#79. People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.
Gary Shteyngart
#80. Anything to do with persuasion is rhetoric, right down to the argumentum ad baculum, which means threatening somebody with a stick until they agree with you.
Mark Forsyth
#81. I've met kids who haven't had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.
Common
#82. You couldn't hide that friendly giant from somebody rimming your butthole.
Victor J. Banis
#83. All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.
LeCrae
#84. Future?" Homer said. He was a little embarrassed because all his life, from day to day, he had been busy mapping out a future, even if it was only a future for the next day. "Well," he said, "I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd like to be somebody some day.
William, Saroyan
#85. Age has given me the gift of me, it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant tender-hearted wife to myself.
Anne Lamott
#86. Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.
Tyler Oakley
#87. But you can't make war personal, or you'll never make the right decisions.'
'And if you didn't make personal decisions, you wouldn't be a person. All war is personal somehow, isn't it? For somebody? Except it's usually hate.
Patrick Ness
#88. You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
Lalita Tademy
#89. People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.
Wayne Gretzky
#90. I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.
Dolly Parton
#91. Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
John Mayer
#92. There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.
Patty Smyth
#93. With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.
Elon Musk
#94. Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.
Ludacris
#95. I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.
Leona Helmsley
#96. Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we don't need to schedule meetings for absolutely everything.
Marcelo Claure
#97. Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.
Bob Dylan
#98. I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.
Trey Parker
#99. Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
Will Cuppy
#100. I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.
Justin Timberlake
