Quotes About Something Else

#1. You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

William Shatner

#2. Smartass Disciple: Master, I believe that the truth will prevail at the end.
Master of Stupidity: No 'the end' for the truth. 'Prevail' is something else.

Toba Beta

#3. When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I can make a movie that's different, that explores something that's not a retread of something else, I'm interested in it.

Don Coscarelli

#4. A saying, since a saying arises always from the mouths of adults when a person was just a listening child, was supposed to carry you back there, like a magic trick or a scrap of a story, or something with something else still sticking to it.

Sebastian Barry

#5. The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else.

Leah Raeder

#6. There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

Cillian Murphy

#7. I love learning. I tend to stop doing things once I get good at them, and to try something else I'm not as good at, leaving a bunch of fans going, "But he was really good at that. Why isn't he still doing it?"

Neil Gaiman

#8. The best way to get past something was usually to simply do something else, right?

Melody Carlson

#9. When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.

Frederick Lenz

#10. If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

Timothy Keller

#11. And there was something else, it seemed, now permanently part of her life. Doubt, and suspicion too, filled all that there was room for in her waking thoughts.

Jane Gaskell

#12. It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Glenn Tipton

#13. I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.

Isabella Rossellini

#14. Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.

Marianne Williamson

#15. Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else.

Laura Dave

#16. I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

Drew Carey

#17. I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.

Meg Cabot

#18. You're worse than those bikers," she spat, her body tense and coiling, ready to attack. "At least they knew they were monsters. You're pathetic! You're a monster who imagines he's something else.

C.J. Roberts

#19. and low-life cable network producers, who have never had a thought in their heads that did not come from something else they saw on cable television, are so unthreatened by me that they feel safe stealing my stuff and claiming to have had sudden strokes of genius.

Pete Dexter

#20. If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Tom Stoppard

#21. All he's done since then is poke me with his pen." "Probably because he wants to poke you with something else," she said dryly. My eyes bugged. "I can't believe you said that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. And something else came back, from that later first morning at Kensington Park Gardens: a sense that the house was not only an enhancement of Toby's interest but a compensation for his lack of it.

Alan Hollinghurst

#23. There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

Anthony Weiner

#24. When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.

Alex Scally

#25. Once on stage, I was thinking of something else, and I forgot my line. I became so frightened. The girl I was playing with also became so frightened, she couldn't give me the next line. I just walked off stage.

Maria Karnilova

#26. Love is energy. It can never be destroyed but can only transform into something else...like hate. And when energy transforms it becomes less useful; therefore hate is useless.

Nova Sparks

#27. Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.

Walter Dean Myers

#28. The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.

Randy Newman

#29. Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

Kate Ashfield

#30. Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Jeanne Moreau

#31. Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

Elaine Scarry

#32. For a long time now he knew that anything could appear to b something else, and probably was.

Toni Morrison

#33. Capitalism, he noted, is not something imposed on us by some outside force. It only exists because every day we wake up and continue to produce it. If we woke up one morning and all collectively decided to produce something else, then we wouldn't have capitalism anymore.

David Graeber

#34. I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.

Larry Bird

#35. Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be.

Toni Morrison

#36. I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

Lauren Oliver

#37. We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue
and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

Euripides

#38. I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

Catherine Deneuve

#39. Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Stephen King

#40. I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new
by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

Ralph Ellison

#41. Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.

Larry Page

#42. When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

Trisha Yearwood

#43. Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

Swami Vivekananda

#44. Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Shunryu Suzuki

#45. There are just lots of possibilities in the world ... I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

Rachel Cohn

#46. You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.

Rhys Darby

#47. From then on, he was convinced that the universe dazzled mankind with volcanic eruptions, but had its own secret way of communicating with the select few, people like Andrew who looked at reality as though it were a strip of wallpaper covering up something else.

Felix J. Palma

#48. Something else I want you to know: how glad I am, Constant Reader, that we're both still here. Cool, isn't it? - SK

Stephen King

#49. It all feels so different than it did yesterday. Is it because I'm aware of your feelings now? Or is it something else? Is it that...I know...what love is?

Rei Toma

#50. I let it boil and it's got scum on it," Carol said annoyedly. "I'm sorry."

But Therese loved it, because she knew this was exactly what Carol would always do, be thinking of something else and let the milk boil.

Claire Morgan

#51. As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don't get that.

Jerry Seinfeld

#52. Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.
Each thing only reminds us of what it is
And it's only what nothing else is.
The fact that it's it separates it from every other thing.
(Everything's nothing without another thing that's not it).

Alberto Caeiro

#53. I DID my life - one thing to do after another, always something else to do. Because you don't need a heart to DO, but you do need one to live.

Patti Callahan Henry

#54. Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

Claude Monet

#55. It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

Marissa Moss

#56. Time doesn't expand limitlessly. When I say yes to one thing, I must say no to something else.

Crystal Paine

#57. That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

Joseph O'Connor

#58. Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa all about-I don't know, confidence or will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no question. But there's something else, somethng that these things grow out of. It's joy.

Julie Powell

#59. I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

Erol Alkan

#60. I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

Kurt Eichenwald

#61. There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her daughter, I've had a special window into how she serves. I've seen her holding the hands of mothers, worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the healthcare they need.

Chelsea Clinton

#62. I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else ... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

Diana Vreeland

#63. A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.

Rebecca Solnit

#64. Talk was one thing, but knowing was something else entirely.

Pepper Winters

#65. We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy priority over a common European approach. We have to prevent this.

Martin Schulz

#66. Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#67. I press my palm to the small pane of glass and feel the cold clasp my hand in a familiar embrace. We are both alone, both existing as the absence of something else.

Tahereh Mafi

#68. If our minds and hearts are not filled with God's truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs - the list is endless.

Billy Graham

#69. What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!

Craig Charles

#70. I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

Norman Lock

#71. But as for Gabriel Sullivan." Ren reach out his six-fingered hand toward me. I clasped it. Warmth flooded me. But something else. Certainty. Trust. Compassion. Courage. He pulled his hand back, smiled. "That is all I can tell you.

Linnea Sinclair

#72. If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

Dorothy Allison

#73. I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

Marat Safin

#74. Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

Charles Dance

#75. We've all experienced pondering a problem all day long only to find we receive the solution when forgetting about the problem and thinking of something else. When we stop concentrating so hard, we allow our subconscious to flourish, and those who do this more than others are often called geniuses.

James Morcan

#76. My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.

J.M. Coetzee

#77. A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own ... you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.

Hiromu Arakawa

#78. To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.

Ajahn Brahm

#79. It's funny how when you say "yes" to something (like the man of your dreams), you don't think about the fact that you are also saying "no" to something else.

Amy E. Spiegel

#80. We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

Terence McKenna

#81. There is something specifically healthy about strong fences and boundaries. They first of all are a way of taking intrinsic care of yourself and those you love. But energetically something else happens as well. Things fall into place. ~Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

Kathryn Hall

#82. There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#83. 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

#84. Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.

Barbara Hurd

#85. Wow, that is so deep.'
He meant it, of course.
'You're really real,' he added breathily. 'Say something else.'
I decided he wasn't worth punching, and walked away.

Claire North

#86. When do you do things for the love of it? Always. If you're not feeling that, go do something else. Life is too short.

Raph Koster

#87. To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

Robert G. Thompson

#88. Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.

Henry Rollins

#89. As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.

Haruki Murakami

#90. The price for flight. I'd never thought of it that, of my decision having any sort of value. But of course it did. Every choice meant giving something up to gain something else.

Karen White

#91. Not a spoon clinked against a mug, not a creamer was popped, peeled and opened, not a breath. It was as though something else had joined them then. As though silence had taken a seat.

Louise Penny

#92. It isn't hard to let people die when their deaths give life to something else.

Victoria Aveyard

#93. His face, and his face alone, needs to be the driving force of our lives. If it's not, we are worshiping something else, and sooner or later that idol will be taken from us by a trial, circumstance, or death.

Jefferson Bethke

#94. You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#95. But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.

Elliot Richardson

#96. I think a movie is a great date idea for younger couples. It takes the pressure off, since something else is entertaining you. It's also good for couples in a very comfortable relationship.

Chris Carmack

#97. I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

Katharine Whitehorn

#98. A good listener is usually thinking of something else.

Kin Hubbard

#99. My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.

John Updike

#100. When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

E. M. Forster