Quotes About Something

#1. Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to be at best irrelevant or false, at worst viciously misleading. - Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good. - Author: Daniel Clowes

#3. Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large! - Author: Zhuangzi

#4. We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it. - Author: John Cage

#5. It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it. - Author: Ben H. Winters

#6. But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it. - Author: Joe R. Lansdale

#7. When TJ and I got to the bottom, we found Hope staring terrified at Molly. The dog had something long and horrible and meaty in her jaws. It took me a moment to register that it was a very fresh-looking human spine. Damn, she was hungry. - Author: David Wong

#8. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new. - Author: Tanya Lloyd Kyi

#9. Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on. - Author: Ruth Ozeki

#10. When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return. - Author: Michael J. Fox

#11. For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about. - Author: Alexei Sayle

#12. Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle - Author: Danielle LaPorte

#13. I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body. - Author: Jean Reno

#14. Why is it that whenever anyone says something offensive, they always add 'no offense' after it? - Author: Michelle Hodkin

#15. Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no longer questioning me, for those eyes made me want to tell him everything. At the same time, those eyes revealed something to me. Was he in love with Alera? - Author: Cayla Kluver

#16. I think we should all earn our place in the world. [ ... ] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything. - Author: Rachel Vincent

#17. I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting. - Author: Dean Cain

#18. If they make you put on a suit, it's because they are going to do something horrible to you. I guarantee it. - Author: Jesse Ball

#19. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#20. I take my best lessons from nature, and nature says 'When something flies at your head- move. - Author: Maureen Johnson

#21. One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, even if sometimes it still doesn't turn out the way we want it to. - Author: Kelly Jones

#22. ****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is by INTO THE DIM doesn't have any of my friends/comments/info. Not to worry, GR is working on it!! In the meantime...CUPCAKES FOR ALL!!**** - Author: Janet B. Taylor

#23. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#24. I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do. - Author: Lena Olin

#25. A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. - Author: William Barclay

#26. But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. - Author: T. S. Eliot

#27. something glorious a minute later. How could anyone not have an orgasm? While she didn't ask for his cock, her mouth opened as she gulped in air. Perhaps it was when she dropped her head back that he understood she was ever so close, because he shut off the vibrator and pulled it out. - Author: Vella Day

#28. Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe. - Author: Jane Porter

#29. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life. - Author: Jessye Norman

#30. That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time. - Author: J.D. Salinger

#31. Rapping for me is more about being entertaining and giving something back to the fans. I want people to say, 'There goes Pooch holding his own with Consequence, Rick Ross, and Drake.' - Author: Pooch Hall

#32. Take a stand; go for the right choice. Don't just sit for anything; stand for something. Be specific because sometimes, when the meaning is not clear, there us absolutely no meaning! - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#33. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that." - Author: Madonna Ciccone

#34. That I happened to fall into a career that no other girls wanted isn't surprising to me. I wanted something that didn't exist, so I had to create it. - Author: Ronda Rousey

#35. I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it. - Author: Bernie Mac

#36. 61I am prepared to ... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more or less violent nervous shock which has its repercussions in the very core of the brain. - Author: Walter Benjamin

#37. I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable. - Author: Josh Radnor

#38. Sheesh, I'm surprised you've survived out here this long. Tell me, are you normal for a warrior or are you like a special day-release case or something?" "What? - Author: Mina Carter

#39. He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart thudding, pollen sticky on his fingertips, July pricking sweat at his breastbone, the smell of gasoline and someone else's charcoal grill. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#40. But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want, - Author: Madeleine L'Engle

#41. I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required way, but something that is always opening up in front of us with the people me meet and the things we do, becoming more meaningful along the way. - Author: Phil Mitchell

#42. I think you're beautiful and smart and talented and deserve a man that can feel with something besides his dick. - Author: Karen Marie Moning

#43. She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. - Author: Harry Chapin

#44. He sucked in a breath like he had a hole in his chest. Something - Author: Ann Aguirre

#45. The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power. - Author: Daniel Keys Moran

#46. I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it. - Author: Guy Berryman

#47. The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs.
"Say something," Gansey said.
"That bell."
"Everything is terrible," agreed Gansey. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#48. In order to be a success in life you have to be willing to take a chance. Its like putting a blindfold on and jumping off a cliff and hoping you'll land on something soft. - Author: Ricky Star

#49. There's never any warning that something extraordinary is about to happen, is there? - Author: Eva Rice

#50. If you do something bad to me, and I say "okay, let's move on," it does not mean I forgive you. - Author: Karen E. Quinones Miller

#51. When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile. - Author: Sam Taylor-Johnson

#52. You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change. - Author: Montel Williams

#53. I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing. - Author: Sarah Dessen

#54. They will be bound to make some arrests, he thought, with something resembling virtuous indignation, for the even tenor of his revolutionary life was menaced by no fault of his. - Author: Joseph Conrad

#55. Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky. - Author: Kate Christensen

#56. Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest. - Author: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#57. You only break out the good stuff when you want something. Usually something that includes blood, death, and/or mayhem. - Author: Alexandra Ivy

#58. If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English. - Author: Dan Castellaneta

#59. But you'll be killed!"
"I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice."
Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. - Author: Rick Riordan

#60. It was a scream, but it was also something like a song, too. It was like all the pain and sorrow in the world was being dredged up from the bottom of the earth and was twisting itself into a horrible, tortured melody. - Author: Danielle Paige

#61. When I was 22, I finally reached that huge goal. Now I'm going for another one. It's so satisfying. It's something that I worked for for so long, and just to know that I got it feels so great. - Author: Jonathan Horton

#62. A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask. - Author: Gary L. Thomas

#63. We believe that this human life is a great gift, that every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something, that every part of it is blessed by God and therefore to be enjoyed, that every part is accompanied by God and therefore workable. - Author: Eugene H. Peterson

#64. The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn. - Author: Ian Lamont

#65. Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away? - Author: Amy Summers

#66. Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect. - Author: Sean Berdy

#67. When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong. - Author: Joe Paterno

#68. Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that. - Author: John Sandford

#69. However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about. - Author: Ted Allen

#70. You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough."
"It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."
Ryder made a face. "Are you insane? why say something like that and temp the cosmos?"
Laith watch him walk away, wondering if he had just drawn the interest of fate. - Author: Donna Grant

#71. If you give money to poor guy he knows how to spend them, so if you have money which are redundant give them too a poor person. He will probably buy something for eat or he will get out of his misery. - Author: Deyth Banger

#72. Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. - LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003 - Author: Ray Kurzweil

#73. I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something. - Author: Jon Stewart

#74. In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class. - Author: Mark Burnett

#75. It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me. - Author: Paula Hawkins

#76. When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget. - Author: Kevin A. Ford

#77. Say something worth the words. - Author: Tracy Chevalier

#78. From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#79. A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something. - Author: Dave Grohl

#80. She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and nowhere to be, because for the rest of her life, there would always, always be something left undone. An unmade confession. An ugly secret. - Author: Liane Moriarty

#81. But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#82. In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human. - Author: Sam Abell

#83. If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is. - Author: Eric Bana

#84. Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself. - Author: Peter Lindbergh

#85. Something is always happening somewhere. - Author: Mitch Albom

#86. It's very strange to be completely naked in public," said Jacob. "It isn't something Americans ordinarily do."
"I can't say it's very English, either," replied Henry.
"It's a Scottish thing, though, isn't it? With all the kilts and all that. - Author: Caleb Crain

#87. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love. - Author: Lily King

#88. The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it. - Author: Evelyn Ashford

#89. I reached for something to hold on to and ended up leaning against the wall behind me - Author: Penny Reid

#90. Most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the top. - Author: Seth Godin

#91. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator. - Author: Alan Furst

#92. Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood. - Author: Dr. Dre

#93. I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to. - Author: Angel Olsen

#94. Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you. - Author: Jim Rohn

#95. You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something. - Author: Tim Cahill

#96. I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse. - Author: Liz Phair

#97. Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing. - Author: Don DeLillo

#98. The apothecary's name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He'd found a new type of blue fluff, which he was grinding down. It was probably good for curing something. He'd have to try it out on people until he found out what. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#99. People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything. - Author: Jonathan Haidt

#100. I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this is part of a bigger clockwork - Author: Wolfgang Tillmans