Someone Says Quotes

#1. If someone says there's a portal to hell under some rocks, you bet your ass I'm going to move them.

Ryan Buell

#2. When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing that person to control you.

Joel Osteen

#3. Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime.

Michael Jackson

#5. Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.

Mary Kay Ash

#6. The Bible says that it's all right to cast the first stone if someone dead is telling you to do it

David Sedaris

#7. From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

Lauryn Hill

#8. We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from one another. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don't curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hat. That'll show them.

Ellen DeGeneres

#9. If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.

Janet Macunovich

#10. People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.

Michael Lynton

#11. I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

Carmen Electra

#12. An ambassador is someone who thinks twice before he says nothing" -

attributed to one of India's ambassadors in Argentina at the time.

Tony Leon

#13. The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

#14. It's joyous," he says. "If I save someone from breaking a commandment, it gives me a little high." He pumps his fist. "I never took drugs, but I imagine this is what it feels like.

A. J. Jacobs

#15. I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.

Rose Leslie

#16. I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.

Dan Stevens

#17. It's still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.

Rainbow Rowell

#18. Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.

Jonathan Turley

#19. Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

Donald Judd

#20. I think it's because with sex you're trusting someone to make you feel good, but an embrace says you're trusting someone to make you feel safe.

Jewel E. Ann

#21. We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we aren't allowed and that someone can back it up. -Jacky Faber

L.A. Meyer

#22. Do you like being rich?"
"Yes. Show me someone who doesn't," he says darkly.

E.L. James

#23. Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.

Tibor Fischer

#24. As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Robyn Hitchcock

#25. I believe in the princess when she says that she'll return to those waiting for her. So i'll wait. It's more painful to wait than to go along on the trip." 'Well, I can't wait.' "Are you that afraid to believe in someone?

CLAMP

#26. I love you: You imagine hearing the words from someone not related to you, someone not your best friend, but when someone you love, someone you dream about, actually says them, it makes your body melt and your breath get caught in your chest.

Sarah Mlynowski

#27. Whenever someone comes up to me and says, 'I'm having trouble shopping.' I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.

Lauren Conrad

#28. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

#29. It's like a pistol in a stage play: when someone waves a pistol during the first act, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone will be shot with it before the curtain falls. That's the law of drama. The law that says no pistol must appear if no one's going to fire it.

Herman Koch

#30. I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

Cicely Tyson

#31. Nothing says you care like sending someone a kitten.

Brian South

#32. The Smiths are singing and someone says Turn that gay angst music off.

Bret Easton Ellis

#33. As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

Jenny O'Connell

#34. Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

Joe Hill

#35. There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is.

Terrence Howard

#36. Time is precious, she says, and it's rude to waste someone else's.

Nicola Yoon

#37. Tell me if you ever cared,
if a single thought
for me was spared.
Tell me when you lie in bed,
do you think of something
I once said.
Tell me if you hurt at all,
when someone says
my name with yours.
It may have been so long ago,
but I would give
the world to know.

Lang Leav

#38. If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.

Patrick Wang

#39. If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.

Rosemary Casals

#40. It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

Maya Angelou

#41. A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

Robert B. Cialdini

#42. That is the true mingling of kinship when a man can tell someone all his thoughts; anything is better than to be fickle; he is no true friend who only says pleasant things.

Anonymous

#43. A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

John Mason Brown

#44. If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it ... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

Lydia Lunch

#45. When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

Michael Josephson

#46. When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.

Isaac Mizrahi

#47. If mom says women are not property, how come I want to belong to someone else?

Sarah Tregay

#48. I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.

Ornette Coleman

#49. An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.

Alan Sugar

#50. I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

Olivia Wilde

#51. If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

John Cage

#52. It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

Adam Johnson

#53. Ego says: I want someone to fill me up. Spirit says: I'll have someone to help me wake up, to challenge my blind spots and be a companion and playmate on the journey.

Charlotte Kasl

#54. I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

Gerald Vizenor

#55. Great art says the things we wished someone would say out loud, the things we wish we could say out loud.

Shauna Niequist

#56. So now I'm popular?" Freya says. "They hate me, and I hit someone, and now they like me?

Kim Stanley Robinson

#57. When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.

Kersten Hamilton

#58. When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

Parker J. Palmer

#59. Someone says, 'oh, you know what? I'm going to give you a shot to see what you can do', and you've been praying for a promotion, now someone gives you an opportunity, that's a miracle.

DeVon Franklin

#60. Ridge: Oh, and btw, I didn't write that on your forehead.
What? I run to the dresser and look in the mirror for the first time today. Written across my forehead in black ink, it says: Someone wrote on your forehead.

Colleen Hoover

#61. Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

Janet McTeer

#62. It says, loving doesn't change just because someone isn't there, or because time gets in the way, or even death. It's always with you, keeping you safe, it won't ever leave you.

Susan Cooper

#63. If someone comes to me and says they're not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody's loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.

Aksel Hennie

#64. I try to keep my heart and myself available for those little, 'God moments,' are what I call them, where someone calls the office and says, 'Would Ricky be interested in doing this?'

Ricky Skaggs

#65. If someone says to you, "The main problem in your life is not what's happened to you, not what people have done to you; your main problem is the way you've responded to that" - ironically, that's empowering.

Timothy Keller

#66. Zander says you are." "Zander also maintains that Betty White isn't the only surviving member of The Golden Girls and that a reunion is still possible if someone could just uncover the conspiracy,

Lily Harper Hart

#67. Everybody wants to be someone else," he says "Do you blame them?" he asks.

Lissa Price

#68. Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love."
"He says only if you love yourself.

Theodore Sturgeon

#69. No one says anything. We've hit into one of those weird silences that happen when someone drops something too real into the middle of a conversation that should just have been about drinking and patting ourselves on the back.

Richard Kadrey

#70. Painful memories come out of the blue whether someone says something or not," Andi replied. "It's always an eternity ago and always yesterday.

Connie Miller Pease

#71. I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#72. There's a great quote from the movie Almost Famous that says, The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Brene Brown

#73. If someone asks me a question, that says they appreciate what I do and that's nice. And I know what it was like when I was a kid to want to interact with a top player.

Mary Pierce

#74. If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

Chris Gethard

#75. In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

Stanley Hauerwas

#76. Your child, your friend your neighbor, somebody looks up and says You know what? I am going to move my life towards that type of goodness, doing that type of goodness, being that type of goodness and kindness. I think that is how someone becomes a hero.

John Assaraf

#77. Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

Lady Gaga

#78. I see someone who's really good at saying the right things, but when push comes to shove, doesn't mean a thing he says.

Nicholas Sparks

#79. The next time someone says "This sounds great, but I just don't have the TIME ... " Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, "Would you like to change that?"

Jeff Olson

#80. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

Cory Booker

#81. You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

Kevin DeYoung

#82. Someone's opinion of you isn't reality ... unless you decide to allow it!! You are who God says you are!!!

Paula White

#83. I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.

Robert Pattinson

#84. There's a crazy lady living in your head. I hope you'll be comforted to hear that you're not alone. Most of us have an invisible inner terrible someone who says all sorts of nutty stuff that has no basis in truth.

Cheryl Strayed

#85. When someone says something petty or nasty, one of those little passive-aggressive things that would usually just pick at me for days, my new response is not to shut the door and bitch to anyone who will listen. Now? The moment they say it? "What did you mean by that?" I ask in a calm voice. It

Shonda Rhimes

#86. Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.

A.J. Flowers

#87. If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative'", then I would say, "No, the Gnani Purush Knows the 'relative' as being the 'relative', and therefore He is happy in the relative as well.

Dada Bhagwan

#88. Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.

Steve Martin

#89. I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

Robbie Williams

#90. Everything anyone says when they have an agenda is bullshit, and bullshit isn't necessarily false, but it's never really the truth either. So when someone's bullshitting, you need to pay a little more attention.

Caliban Darklock

#91. Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.

Antony Hegarty

#92. When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

Kanye West

#93. People love their fathers. Their sisters. People love dogs or songs or poems. If I've got to be the champion of something, make it something that doesn't change what it means every time someone says it.

Daniel Abraham

#94. A statue is just a statue until someone comes along and says it is beautiful. Then it starts to enjoy the magnificence of life.

Debasish Mridha

#95. You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

Joyce Carol Oates

#96. My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

Mel Brooks

#97. Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.

Stephen Richards

#98. I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.

Prince

#99. We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy.

Stanley Ho

#100. We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'

Trey Parker