So Many Things Quotes

#1. I auditioned for so many things - cops, lawyers, doctors and things but they were like, "She just seems too sweet. I don't see that hard side of her."

Christina Hendricks

#2. Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

Sonny Rollins

#3. The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.

Kelly Slater

#4. I think about so many things, my brain rarely shuts off. At night, my thoughts go over the day I had like replaying a movie. I try to make sense of what happened to the characters.
I'm the director, but can never reshow the edited film.

Tina J. Richardson

#5. I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline.

Jenny Meadows

#6. I don't suppose I have a choice.'
'As with so many things in a life, brother, I don't suppose you do.

Patrick DeWitt

#7. There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.

Amanda Palmer

#8. I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.

Chinua Achebe

#9. My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

Abraham Verghese

#10. In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

Wade Boggs

#11. What have you done? What have you given up?'
So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

Lauren DeStefano

#12. As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.

Carmen Ejogo

#13. Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

Orson Scott Card

#14. Nowadays we are forced with so many things in life in society that all of the sudden we are no longer in tune with our soul, and if you can find a channel to that soul, its dark, and you've got to be able to look at it, with joy, because you're willing to look at it.

Jean-Marc Barr

#15. He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short rein. They do only that which they know is safe and that which he tells them to do. So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him.

Mike Royko

#16. There are so many things to know and learn. She reads ... and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#17. After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.

James Baldwin

#18. Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she's come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

Christina Baker Kline

#19. There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

Jodi Picoult

#20. In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.

Steve Jobs

#21. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

Fred Astaire

#22. I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#23. I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it.

Guy Maddin

#24. There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#25. They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it
when I have children of my own. They say I would understand it when I go through the experience myself.

It is not easy to raise children into adults. There are so many things that could go wrong.

Marcella Purnama

#26. The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

Oren Peli

#27. What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Henri Matisse

#28. Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

Ira Glass

#29. It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.

Felix Okoye

#30. That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#31. There were a gazillion new details to take in and so many things to learn that I did not know what to make of it all.

Kristine K. Stevens

#32. Nobody, said Humboldt, had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself. But so many things didn't fit in with it, one had to really force oneself.

Daniel Kehlmann

#33. I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

Edgar Degas

#34. There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Giorgio Armani

#35. I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.

Lena Dunham

#36. It's daylight and I can see so many things I couldn't see back then. - Laney

Meg Waite Clayton

#37. He was glad to be human. For sure, it was a great inconvenience to have to walk on two legs and wear clothes. There were so many things he didn't know. Yet had he been a fish or a sunflower, and not a human being, he might never have experienced this emotion.

Haruki Murakami

#38. So many things
I know about myself
I've learned from others.
Without someone else to listen,
to judge,
to tell me what to do,
and choose
who I am,
do I get to decide for myself?

Caroline Starr Rose

#39. So many things there are to know. Most things happen because of mistakes.

David Mitchell

#40. I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand.

Ronnie Radke

#41. An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.

Joanne Woodward

#42. To lose such an important listener in life is like losing my shadow. With no shadow, does a person truly exist under the sun? With no listener, does a person really have a voice? Silence means so many things to human beings. Some of them are unbearable.

Reeve Lindbergh

#43. 'The Three Stooges' is great. And I was worried, just because there's so many things that have to go right. All three of those guys have to be amazing - everything has to be amazing. And everything went right.

Carly Craig

#44. So many things people say may seem so good and right; you only have to think twice to know what is so good and right!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#45. I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

Ryan Adams

#46. There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.

Milton H. Erickson

#47. Then he put in a call for Nicole in Zurich, remembering so many things as he waited, and wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#48. Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

Louis L'Amour

#49. When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

Swizz Beatz

#50. I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good days, bad days, loneliness, happiness, anger, anxiety, pressure, relationships ... EVERYTHING.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

#51. There were so many things I have had to say sorry for that I wasn't sorry about.

Miley Cyrus

#52. We should realize there are so many things that us together rather than the things that keep us apart.

Tim McIlrath

#53. We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.

Michael Redhill

#54. I'm constantly surprised by ... an orange will roll off a table, and I'll catch it before I knew it was falling. Something happens there. We could write it off and say, 'Subconsciously I knew that was happening,' but there's so many things every day - I'm amazed by how little we know.

Shane Carruth

#55. In front of us there is an immense garden of words and non-words, a serre, that is, a greenhouse in which are preserved by my care so many things of speech you have given me while leaving me free to cultivate them.

Helene Cixous

#56. There wouldn't be any way I could have jumped into Cup with the success I had without the truck series. I wish I had more time to spend there. There are so many things the truck teaches you about aerodynamics, the professional ranks of racing, and working with a professional team.

Kurt Busch

#57. It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

Marjane Satrapi

#58. There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

Michael Fassbender

#59. One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

Artemas Ward

#60. I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

Sarah Chalke

#61. If we try to hold on to so many things, both real and imaginary, thoughts and emotions, fears, worries and expectations, then we begin to weigh our hearts down and make our minds restless.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#62. And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.

Karen Blixen

#63. I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy.

Basil Rathbone

#64. I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

William Bennett

#65. So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don't find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do is to increase the number of planes in our mind, so that a much larger number of themes can find a place in it at the same time

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#66. You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

Kim Kardashian

#67. Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

Jason Mraz

#68. I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, "This is what I'll do next." I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.

Selena Gomez

#69. There is no place for someone like him in the Society, I think, for someone who can create. He can do so many things of incomparable value, things no one else can do, and the Society doesn't care about that at all.

Ally Condie

#70. I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

Shirley Bassey

#71. We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things.

Loretta Lynch

#72. It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

Steve Wozniak

#73. In that moment, we knew that we were all weird, all in this together, and that addressing our own suffering, while learning not to inflict it on others, is part of the work we're all here to do. So is love, which comes in so many forms and can be directed at so many things.

Rebecca Solnit

#74. At festivals there's always one spectator from Egypt who says, 'I like it, it moved me, reminds me of so many things.' I get a lot of reaction from the Arab world at fests. But the percentage of people from the Arab world who like it should be the same as anywhere else.

Eran Kolirin

#75. However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Joseph Butler

#76. I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I'm on tour, it really feels like I'm being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom.

Amanda Palmer

#77. There are so many things we take in subconsciously and are unaware we ever saw. There is plenty of lumber like that in our minds.

Alexander McCall Smith

#78. There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.

Dalai Lama

#79. So many things constrain us, from so many directions.

Peter Watts

#80. Congratulations on a good outcome! We've all been rooting for you. Charmaine wonders who's been doing the rooting, because she hasn't noticed anyone. But like so many things around here, maybe the rooting has taken place behind the scenes.

Margaret Atwood

#81. I find so many things to fear and so few to hope ...

Dorothy Osborne

#82. So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: I guess I'll find out.

Dean Koontz

#83. I wish I never had sex with Luke. I wish I could take back so many things, but I can't. I wish I could be someone worthy for you.

Katie McGarry

#84. Jay became an adult. He got a job, married a wife, and they had a child. Now he had so many things to take care! Like all other grown ups, he talked more of being busy than of being happy. He completely forgot the little bird singing beautiful songs in his heart.

Ilchi Lee

#85. Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.

Gore Vidal

#86. Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.

Nicola Griffith

#87. My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

Annie Lennox

#88. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Ayn Rand

#89. Fear rides in me. Fear of so many things. Fear of letting down my friends, of losing my friends.

Pierce Brown

#90. One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Claude Monet

#91. There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.

Gore Vidal

#92. I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.

Ai Weiwei

#93. One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many things you want to see, to have, and to do, that no day is quite long enough for all you think you would like to get done before you go to bed.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#94. There's so many things I'm dying to do. I wanna do a movie with horses.

Bethany Joy Lenz

#95. It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one's marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can't afford to do anyway are vulgar.

Judith Martin

#96. I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

Christopher Guest

#97. We've been trained to spend money since we were born with all these commercials with toys and G.I. Joes and Transformers. But there's so many things in the supermarket, there's so many things on television that automatically, when you turn it on, are saying, 'Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy!'

Donald Faison

#98. Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

Douglas Coupland

#99. A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

Phil Donahue

#100. So many things becomes beautiful when you really look.

Lauren Oliver