Someone's Quotes

#1. I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

John Podhoretz

#2. A good song had the power to change someone's whole outlook in so many ways.

Lindy Zart

#3. Rules, guidelines, and even laws are someone's opinion about how things should be done. Nothing more.

Johnny B. Truant

#4. When you see someone's aura, it is an outer reflection of the subtle physical body. It is about the same shape as the physical body, although it can become thousands of things.

Frederick Lenz

#5. The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.

Randy Newman

#6. Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

Mark Danner

#7. God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

Rachel Hunter

#8. Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.

Bill Gates

#9. Why would you throw a ball in someone's face? ... Huh. That's a pretty good reason. Well, I can't do much about your teacher being pissed, but me and you are good.

Justin Halpern

#10. It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the center of someone's world,

Robin Hobb

#11. I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

Calvin Klein

#13. There is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it

Oprah Winfrey

#14. I've seen many a small life meet its doom at the end of a beak in our yard, not just beetles and worms but salamanders and wild-eyed frogs. (The "free-range vegetarian hens" testimony on an egg-carton label is perjury, unless someone's trained them with little shock collars.)

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. It had been forever since I'd felt like I wanted to take over someone's sexual history, completely overwrite it with my hands and dick and mouth.

Christina Lauren

#16. Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.

John Waters

#17. Today-be the sunshine in someone's life.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Finn gave a soft laugh. 'What's so funny?' 'I think you're the first person to actually apologise for inflicting pain. Usually it's someone's hobby.

Tabitha McGowan

#19. In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

Chris Bauer

#20. Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.

Greg Behrendt

#21. You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself.

Steven Amsterdam

#22. If someone's not attacking you that means you're not doing your job effectively.

Sean Hannity

#23. If you take your happiness and put it in someone's hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness.

Miguel Ruiz

#24. Great rule of thumb is to never say anything behind someone's back that you wouldn't say straight to the person's face.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#25. You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#26. I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

Russell Brand

#27. Don't forget to be kind, you will make someone's day!

Ava Wilson

#28. The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Nancy Gibbs

#29. When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#30. The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

Ted Rall

#31. Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone's life the joy you want it to be.

Ravi Zacharias

#32. I think that sometimes people don't think before they speak. And even a small comment can make or break someone's day.

Lexi Ainsworth

#33. Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone's choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#34. But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

Jude Morgan

#35. It's also awkward to be so short you can see all the way up into someone's cerebral cortex, but welcome to my life.

Ashley Poston

#36. When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.

Gilbert Arenas

#37. All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

August Wilson

#38. I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.

Dominique Moceanu

#39. By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

Jason Mraz

#40. What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?

Walter Wykes

#41. Someone's got to say these things, it has to be me!

Bob Grant

#42. Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

Will Davis Jr.

#43. I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#44. Someone's war was slashing apart his delicate tapestry of companions. I was Odysseus, I understood the shifting and temporary vetoes of war. But he was a man who made friends with difficulty. He was a man who knew two or three people in his life, and they had turned out now to be the enemy.

Michael Ondaatje

#45. So there was great clashes when, you know, if you believe you shouldn't remove your shoes and someone's taking their shoes off, how can they do this? That actually was such a big clash in this case that they had to put a curtain down the middle of where they would worship.

Michael Emerson

#46. The sonic world of the foyer and vestibule comes at him distorted and from a distance, as if someone's moving furniture underwater.

Dominic Smith

#47. Never underestimate how easy it is to ruin someone's life.

Brette O'Connell

#48. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.

S.C. Stephens

#49. With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination.

Lorraine Heath

#50. All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone's face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone's skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person's body at your thrall.

Poppy Z. Brite

#51. Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense they run to the UN and say, "I must have an ombudsman to protect me." You hardly dare have a shrewd perception about anybody.

Robertson Davies

#52. Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

R. K. Milholland

#53. Homeschool doesn't give you a get out of teenage jail free card. It just
gives you fewer opportunities to become the butt of someone's lame Facebook joke.

Kim Culbertson

#54. I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

Tori Amos

#55. Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

David Sedaris

#56. Education means inspiring someone's mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

#57. If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.

Scott Ian

#58. It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.

Jim Parsons

#59. Now I am standing in the shoes God put on my feet to share my story to help redirect someone else. To empower someone's daughter, granddaughter, mother.

Stevii Aisha Mills

#60. Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

Amy Dickinson

#61. Have you become a song in someone's heart?

Debasish Mridha

#62. I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.

Prince William

#63. I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.

Anna Akhmatova

#64. Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

Nick Denton

#65. I suppose Anne was right when she observed that at any given moment we're all seeking someone's forgiveness.

Amor Towles

#66. I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

Billy Sherwood

#67. Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

Jane Siberry

#68. Hey, Dad, if I needed to check someone's background, would you be able to do that for me?"
"That's a little unethical, Liv." John smoothed his mustache. "Is this about a boy?"
Livia cringed. "Yeah, it is."
"Then absolutely. I'd be happy to.

Debra Anastasia

#69. To improve someone's life, don't reprimand but find the opportunity to appreciate and encourage.

Debasish Mridha

#70. You can judge someone's character by what he does when no one's watching.

Bob Burg

#71. But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

Madeleine L'Engle

#72. It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.

Eliza Dushku

#73. I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.

Stacie Orrico

#74. If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.

Andy Stanley

#75. I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things: you can't leave the bathroom door open ... you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.

J. B. Smoove

#76. For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.

Henry Cloud

#77. What you do behind someone's back you do in front of God's eyes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#78. If what I have to do is share a sandwich to lift someone's spirits, put a smile on their face - the worst thing that happens is I go broke!

Jose Andres

#79. When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.

David Levithan

#80. Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone's life

Leo Babauta

#81. I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

Viggo Mortensen

#82. None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

Harvey MacKay

#83. When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?

Khaled Hosseini

#84. As Stephen Levine says, "When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion.

Nina Angela McKissock

#85. I don't think there's a good reason to run unless someone's chasing me. Seriously.

Janet Gurtler

#86. When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

Wendy Mass

#87. Be a candle of light in someone's life this holy season.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#88. You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.

Curt Mega

#89. I'm suggesting that if you're going to bring hell down upon someone's head, you should dress for the occasion.

T. Kingfisher

#90. It is a paradox. The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.

Susan Jeffers

#91. The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

John F. Carlson

#92. If you want to make a difference in someone's life, you don't need to be gorgeous, rich, famous, brilliant or perfect. you just have to care.

Karen Salmansohn

#93. Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

Hanif Kureishi

#94. When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

Rita Zahara

#95. I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone.

Clemence Poesy

#96. ...I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more.

Lorna Landvik

#97. Never a right time, honey, I know. There never is when it comes to breaking someone's heart

Samantha Towle

#98. (Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

Richard Gere

#99. For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a particular situation; a unique, one-off motive that is born out of someone's particular range of psychological afflictions.

Sophie Hannah

#100. If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?

Jon Stewart