Somebody To Quotes

#1. If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

E. E. Cummings

#2. As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Michael B. Jordan

#3. Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.

Dave Morris

#4. An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

John Glover

#5. I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

Yoko Ono

#6. With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.

John Steinbeck

#7. You may spend years being somebody to everybody, yet you can't find 60 seconds to be someone to someone else. Find the time today to be somebody's someone.

Robert J. Braathe

#8. The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Brendan Behan

#9. You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's too different of a credit. That credit is usually given to the executive producer. It's not the producer.

Rick McCallum

#10. My parenting style could be described as not good cop or bad cop so much as nervous cop. I'm always yelling for somebody to stop because they're about to get hurt. I'm the take a jacket, slow down guy.

Paul Reiser

#11. Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

#12. If you ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person - and I think that's really important.

Sarah Gadon

#13. A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Chuck D

#14. Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

Annette Bening

#15. If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ?

Yasmin Ahmad

#16. I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

Rachael Taylor

#17. That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cake you handed over to somebody on a plate.

Minrose Gwin

#18. Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Malcolm Forbes

#19. When we are at the worst times of our lives, when we are battling with something, or struggles, whatever it may be, when we are at our highest point as well, when things are going really well, we want somebody to comfort us and be there for us and to say, 'Well done.' That's Jesus!

Russell Wilson

#20. I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

Drew Brees

#21. Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.

Elmore Leonard

#22. Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

Kobe Bryant

#23. You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.

Tom Waits

#24. What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

Will Rogers

#26. I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

T. Boone Pickens

#27. I've always said - I've been making games for twenty years, and from the first day I got in this business, I've been saying, 'All I have to do is sell one more copy than I have to, to get somebody to fund my next one.'

Warren Spector

#28. Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.

Sara Maitland

#29. I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you're going through a tough time, you'll get over it.

Bella Thorne

#30. Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.

Kurt Vonnegut

#31. But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius's shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#32. I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

Gary Bauer

#33. I like to be able to connect with people. And that's how I connect, right away. I like to really talk to somebody. To me, it makes my night more interesting.

Dov Davidoff

#34. Everyone is a somebody to someone.

Jeffrey Fry

#35. Sex is merely a genetic joint venture. the process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.

Matt Ridley

#36. I don't get involved with people because quite frankly most people aren't worth getting involved with. I don't need somebody to complete me, be the other half of me or any of that freaky shit.

L.P. Lovell

#37. Because sometimes love just needs a witness ... Somebody to testify. Sometimes love just needed somebody to step forward and say, Here I am, Spirit. Send me.

Pearl Cleage

#38. I am nothing but the breath in and out of my nostrils, take it away and I am a slab of meat. Do whatever you set your heart to do as long as you have that breath within you, I cannot guarantee that you'll have it in the next minute. You cannot buy it or bribe somebody to give it to you

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#39. If I have to remove one to save ten, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I have to waterboard somebody to save a thousand people, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#40. My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

T-Pain

#41. The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.

Josh Brolin

#42. I love you madly," she said. "I shall make you happy if I have to kill somebody to do it. But that ought not to be necessary.

Loretta Chase

#43. It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Wanda Sykes

#44. If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.

John C. Maxwell

#45. The world is the same you never change it, as sure as the stars shine above. Well, you're nobody til somebody loves you, so find yourself somebody to love.

Dean Martin

#46. You can do all these kinds of things that are up close and personal, but you really have to bring your strength, and really - you have to really be committed to actually strangle the life out of somebody, to crush their larynx and just squeeze every drop of life out of them.

Quentin Tarantino

#47. If somebody that I cared about was crying alone in a parking lot," he said, wishing he could tell her that she was somebody he cared about, "at this time of night, I'd want somebody to call me.

Rainbow Rowell

#48. But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.

Jeffrey Jones

#49. If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Ira Glass

#50. I don't need the perfect one. I just need somebody to make me feel like the only one

Zayn Malik

#51. I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

Sonny Rollins

#52. I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer.

Italia Ricci

#53. You're never going to go. Why would you go? It's a disgusting place. It's always wet even when it's dry. There's nothing there. Farmers aren't really people, you know this. They're just necessary, we need somebody to kill cows.

Dylan Moran

#54. You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

Birch Bayh

#55. If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward

Oprah Winfrey

#56. What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

Mos Def

#57. Find out what you like doing best and get somebody to pay you for doing it.

Katherine Whitehorn

#58. The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective.

Randy Pausch

#59. And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

Rob Sheffield

#60. When you do something good, the Argentine people really attach themselves to you. They have so many problems back there that they're looking for somebody to be proud of. I think about that, and I won't forget it.

Manu Ginobili

#61. One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well.

Shaun Alexander

#62. I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

Donald Glover

#63. I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.

Colin Firth

#64. My mother says that I have a knack for remembering what others forget. Sometimes it's a curse; nobody likes it when there's somebody to remember what they've tried so hard to bury.

Cecelia Ahern

#65. You may have sought and tried to obtain instant godliness. There is no such thing....We want somebody to give us three easy steps to godliness, and we'll take them next Friday and be godly. The trouble is, godliness doesn't come that way.
~Jay Adams~

Jerry Bridges

#66. I just wanted somebody to tell me that I could sing.

Zayn Malik

#67. I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Sanaa Lathan

#68. Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, How can I make this person want to do it?

Dale Carnegie

#69. It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Jules Renard

#70. The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.

Larry Crabb

#71. It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

John Wayne

#72. I find a woman with brains enormously attractive and not threatening in the least. A pretty face is nice, too, but having somebody to converse with and share thoughts for thirty or forty years is very appealing to me.

Beatriz Williams

#73. It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#74. If you are somebody to anybody, you're somebody.

Zig Ziglar

#75. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

Liv Ullmann

#76. And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

Sanford I. Weill

#77. I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.

Greg Kinnear

#78. What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

Larry Ellison

#79. People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game.

Michael Gough

#80. Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.

Amy Sedaris

#81. If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

Phil Crane

#82. I don't feel like, unless I have a boyfriend or somebody to march down the aisle with for the fifth time, that I'm 'Oh, poor me.' I'm not going to go running out desperately looking, making myself crazy and thinking that, without that, I'm nothing.

Raquel Welch

#83. I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.

Gary Shteyngart

#84. I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

Woody Norris

#85. Either you like a person or you don't like a person. I don't have to love somebody to work with them. I'm a professional person. But when you get the bonus of really liking someone and really connecting with them and really enjoying them, it's a fantastic thing.

Julianne Moore

#86. Oh, Eeyore, you are wet! said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

A.A. Milne

#87. There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.

Tom Sturridge

#88. If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

Mackenzie Davis

#89. You need somebody to stand up for you. You're the little guy, you just don't realize it yet. The Commonwealth has all the aces, and you don't even know you're playing cards.

Lisa Scottoline

#90. I'm trying to be like, "Hey, dude, you're super happy, this is everything you've ever dreamed of - if you don't have somebody to hold hands with right now, everything's going to be OK, bro."

Justin Vernon

#91. You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

Carl Andre

#92. What's the purpose somebody to follow you on social like (twitter, youtube and facebook) and after few days the follow disappear!

Deyth Banger

#93. I like to do stuff for my brothers and sisters to appreciate because they look up to me, and for other kids around the world who want to get into acting or who just want to have somebody to look up to.

Kyla Pratt

#94. Don't ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing- everyone needs somebody to help them along when they're first starting out.

Allison Janney

#95. You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Faith Ringgold

#96. I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

Faith Hill

#97. Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

Hank Aaron

#98. A man of power and responsibility nevertheless needs somebody to tell him when he is being a bloody fool.

Terry Pratchett

#99. You live most intensely in human contact- and that's what we shrink from, poor timid creatures, from giving our souls to somebody to touch; for they, bungling fools, will generally paw it with dirty hands

D.H. Lawrence

#100. I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know.

Thomas Hardy