Top 100 Quotes About Something Wrong
#1. There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.
David Knopfler
#2. Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.
Gregg Easterbrook
#3. People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness.
Scott Lachance
#4. When someone does something wrong, don't forget all of the things they did right.
Me
#5. It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.
Richard Llewellyn
#6. Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.
Douglas Adams
#7. Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#8. Is there something wrong with daydreaming? Whether you're lost in a fairy tale or in a theory on chemistry, daydreaming about possibilities is rather enjoyable, in my view.
Kieran Kramer
#9. I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.
Geoffrey Holder
#10. There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
Haruki Murakami
#11. I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here."
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Absolutely.
Ned Vizzini
#12. I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!
Yasmine Bleeth
#13. Am I odd?Is there something wrong with me,like Mrs.Tifton Said?"
Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot,there's nothing wrong. with you.
Jeanne Birdsall
#14. I think someone who would watch this would think there is something wrong with me and something wrong with my friends.
Chris Kaman
#16. If it is so easy to help people in real need through no fault of their own, and yet we fail to do so, aren't we doing something wrong? At a minimum, I hope this book will persuade you that there is something deeply askew with our widely accepted views about what it is to live a good life.
Peter Singer
#17. There's something wrong when there's nothing wrong.
David Levithan
#18. Many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there's something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we'll see, compel them to withdraw from high-stimulation environments.
Susan Cain
#19. I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.
Derek Jeter
#20. My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.
Michael Ian Black
#21. If our faith in Jesus Christ isolates us from those who need him, there's something wrong with our faith - and our love.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#22. Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.
Katherine Dunn
#23. You're doing it again," he said.
"Doing what?" I asked, wondering if I had done something wrong.
"Melting my heart with your smile," he said.
Mary Ting
#24. You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong?
Charlie: No, no, I'm okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, it's unsettling.
Christopher Moore
#25. You hate birthdays yet pee your pants over presents. There is clearly something wrong with you, Garrett joked.
Tara Sivec
#26. If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
David Halberstam
#27. Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
E.L. James
#28. I hated high school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something wrong with you.
Stephen King
#29. The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.
Bono
#30. Hauk said under his breath. "Since I've obviously been doing something wrong - " "Yeah," Jayne raked him with a sneer, "lay off the cheap 'hos, and try finding a decent woman for once." Hauk
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.
Colin Powell
#33. Oh God," Jase groaned, rubbing a hand down his jaw. "She's a friend, Dad."
"Uh-huh." His father backed up, picking up the bucket. "Friends with a pretty gal like that, then you're doing something wrong, son.
J. Lynn
#34. Much of the fear of doing something wrong vanishes when we are knowledgeable about what we are doing.
Andrew Saul
#35. from Assata's time cooking at the free breakfast program for kids:
One little girl came over to me and tapped me on the back.
'There's something wrong with your pancakes.'
'What's wrong with them?'
'They don't taste good.
Assata Shakur
#36. The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.
Kenneth Lay
#37. I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.
Asghar Farhadi
#38. The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
Garry Trudeau
#39. I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.
Violante Placido
#40. Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.
Eckhart Tolle
#41. and many people are ego-defensive, meaning they can't admit when they've done something wrong because it makes them feel bad about themselves. So I thought instead of emphasizing self-esteem,
Elise Ballard
#42. People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
Fairuza Balk
#43. There's something wrong with the brakes." He didn't recognize his shaky, weak voice. He pumped them again. Nothing.
"There's something wrong with the BRAKES?"
"I don't think we have any."
"We don't have any BRAKES?"
"Bro, it doesn't help to repeat everything I say!" Jonah yelled.
Jude Watson
#44. I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.
Roger Rosenblatt
#45. Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
Francis Schaeffer
#46. If your life is a miserable disaster, you might want to consider, that it's because you are doing something wrong.
Bryant McGill
#47. Are you purring at me?"
"I might be," Rune said. His deep voice was rougher, and lazy with intimacy. "Unless you've done something wrong. Then I'm growling at you again.
Thea Harrison
#48. There is something wrong with the world if I'm writing a book outside and people think I'm planning an attack due to my skin color.
Daniel Marques
#49. Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now.
Louis B. Mayer
#50. One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.
Jim Rohn
#51. What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.
George Leonard
#52. I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'
Richard Dreyfuss
#53. There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.
Rick Santorum
#54. Sometimes I think it's me. I think I must be doing something wrong, giving out subliminal messages so they can smell the desperation, read the neon lights on my forehead ... "KEEP AWAY FROM THIS WOMAN, SHE IS LOOKING FOR COMMITMENT," but most of the time I think it's them. Bastards. All of them.
Jane Green
#55. I'm at a point where I'm ready to settle down. Every girl I meet, though, something wrong happens, and I end up getting hurt.
Ryan Lochte
#56. The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.
Patti Davis
#57. There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
Nigella Lawson
#58. When I see a man with a tidy place I know there's something wrong with him. And if it's too tidy, he's a fag.
Charles Bukowski
#59. This was typical of my parents: in their minds, no one was just an asshole. There was always something wrong with people other than just sucking: they had socialization disorders, or borderline personality syndrome, or whatever.
John Green
#60. I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.
Alan Hansen
#61. Poor little lambs,' says one, eyeing us constantly, as if there is something wrong with us; as if we have a condition that can't be named." Pastel Orphans
Gemma Liviero
#62. All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.
Cassandra Clare
#63. If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.
Tony La Russa
#64. If you have pain in your ass, it doesn't mean you have done something wrong, but it's probably because you're wearing your little brother's underwear.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#65. Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.
Yasmin Mogahed
#66. The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon
#67. They'll follow me because they want to, or I'm doing something wrong.
John G. Hemry
#68. If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong
Radhanath Swami
#69. What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.
Glenn Beck
#70. A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.
Debasish Mridha
#71. I always felt there was something wrong with me, even when I was a child, a discomfort with my own being. I had an urge to be mean to people. I was too shy to do it properly but now I know the reasons for the faults in my character. I'm the devil.
Rhys Hughes
#72. My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.
Christien Meindertsma
#73. There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.
Clive Thompson
#74. As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.
Rosa Parks
#75. The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
Randall Jarrell
#76. You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.
Randall Jarrell
#77. I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#78. But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs" and "buts"
Cause I love you just as much as I hate your guts
Elvis Costello
#79. When we mourn, it should be the loss of love that makes us grieve, not the guilt that we did something wrong.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#80. He's a singular person, Will. From the time he hit adolescence, I always had to fight the feeling that in his eyes I had somehow done something wrong. I've never been quite sure what it was.
Jojo Moyes
#81. I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
Valerie Bertinelli
#82. Mr. Kino, you're not the type who would willingly do something wrong. I know that very well. But there are times in this world when it's not enough just not to do the wrong thing. Some people use that blank space as a kind of loophole.
Haruki Murakami
#83. Life is never simple or without challenges. If it is, it will not last long. So stop worrying that because your life is complicated you're doing something wrong. Enjoy the lessons in life, and the chaos they bring. It means you're alive!
Shane E. Bryan
#84. There is something wrong when a brother or sister becomes alienated from the rest of their family, so there is something wrong when Christians refuse to have anything to do with their fellow Christians. God wants us to live this Christian life together.
Billy Graham
#85. Studies show that when ordinary people do something wrong - break a promise, commit a murder - they usually fold it into a narrative that denies or at least diminishes their guilt.
Jonathan Gottschall
#86. No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
Al Alvarez
#87. For Love surely lies heartbroken at all the tears cried in its name, the curses flung at its efforts ... there is nothing wrong with love; there is just something wrong with us.
Sinovuyo Nkonki
#88. I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah". I think there's something wrong with my headphones.
Russell Brand
#89. When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.
Frank Shorter
#90. If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.
Robert Heller
#91. I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto-Marxist, an irrationalist, a nihilist.
Michel Foucault
#92. There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics ... When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.
Barack Obama
#93. I swear, Sophie, I think there's something wrong with me. Every man I meet is intolerable. Perhaps I should set my sights lower[ ... ]
Mary Ann Shaffer
#94. If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Robert Morgan
#95. I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.
Carolina Herrera
#96. I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#97. I straightened up, pulling just a little away from him. He looked at me questioningly. "Something wrong?" "Nice aftershave," I said. No need to confess that I'd had an almost irresistible urge to nibble his neck. It was too embarrassing. The
Laurell K. Hamilton
#98. If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
Patrick DeWitt
#99. I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.
Megan Hilty
#100. Every day I did something wrong, and in the end I began to enjoy it.
Hermann Hesse
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