Top 100 Something The Quotes
#1. That doesn't mean they're not still angling for something. The most charitable people in the world are choosing altruism, not because it's a noble endeavor, but because being noble fulfills a need within them.
Lindsay Buroker
#2. If we fail to do something, the people following us will have nothing to build upon
Sunday Adelaja
#3. What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.
Alice McDermott
#4. You know something, the Big Valboski is a lot like a Rubix Cube ... the more you play with it, the harder it gets!
Val Venis
#5. I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.
Barbara Lynn
#6. Fifteen minutes later, what she got was the most remarkable thing she had ever seen in her life. And Rue had once witnessed a whole party of American tourists actually refuse to drink tea, in a London teahouse, so that's saying something. The
Gail Carriger
#7. When a teacher helps someone to discover something, the teacher always learn something new too.
Paulo Coelho
#8. You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.
Seth Godin
#9. I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be about something, it has to have depth to it and it has to be about something. The story of the character and their relationship with the people and places around them appeal to me and are what I look for.
Richard Hatch
#10. would have recognized the opportunity for a world-class joke, but would never allow myself to be funny at the cost of making somebody else feel like something the cat drug in. Let that be my epitaph. ***
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#11. The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.
Tina Fey
#12. ust as loyalty, betrayal is a two way street. Before you start cheating on/for something, the same gears up instantaneously to kick your a**
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#13. I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.
Jim Carrey
#14. Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.
Paula Wall
#15. Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
Adyashanti
#16. Then in 1914 things changed. Partageuse found that it too had something the world wanted. Men. Young men. Fit men. Men who had spent their lives swinging an ax or holding a plow and living it hard. Men who were the prime cut to be sacrificed on tactical altars a hemisphere away.
M.L. Stedman
#17. Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
Bill Nighy
#18. Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.
Carl Lotus Becker
#19. The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
Zach Galligan
#20. Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.
Roshon Fegan
#21. If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
Charles Kettering
#22. Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.
Jeff Lindsay
#23. You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.
Arthur L. Williams Jr.
#24. Bravo," said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom's chest. "The Winter prince and Oberon's jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.
Julie Kagawa
#25. But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.
Neal Shusterman
#26. As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
Len Goodman
#27. It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.
Robert Kiyosaki
#28. I've always been terrified of getting used to something that is actually killing me-a relationship or a job. But in those cases, you can count on a friend to say something. The Internet is different, because all my friends are in the same relationship.
Miranda July
#29. Whatever else men have believed, they have all believed that there is something the matter with mankind. This sense of sin has made it impossible to be natural and have no clothes, just as it has made it impossible to be natural and have no laws.
G.K. Chesterton
#30. I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'
John Patrick Shanley
#31. Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson; the good ones give you memories, the best ones, joy.
Jeffrey Fry
#32. I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#33. I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'
Lori Wilde
#34. When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
Sara Zarr
#35. And when gods touched something, the normal became the supernatural, the simple became the wondrous.
Mitch Albom
#36. Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
Krishna Das
#37. I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.
Neneh Cherry
#38. A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him.
Will Rogers
#39. Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
Rand Paul
#40. I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things selfishly, out of arrogance, pride, lust, greed. And all have fallen short. That doesn't mean some we're definitely a part of that inclusive all.
Jon Foreman
#41. Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.
Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
#42. You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
Barbara Hall
#43. Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.
Julian Fellowes
#44. She'd lived through something the rest of them could never imagine. So much torture and horror that she didn't need to tell people about it. She'd never need drama or joy or pain ever again.
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
James Thurber
#46. Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever
Eric Schmidt
#47. When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
Marcus Buckingham
#48. Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.
Joyce Meyer
#49. When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
Tadao Ando
#50. The more you feel like you need to fix something, the more you need to not.
Esther Hicks
#51. Doing something the right way is something I take pride in.
Frank Thomas
#52. The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.
Beth Comstock
#53. I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.
Eduardo Galeano
#54. Their conversation had gone like this: 'Something something, something something, something something something ... the White Dog of Afghanistan ... something something something, something, something, something else, something entirely unintelligible.
Mark Helprin
#55. Sometimes fear is something we must battle through. Other times it's something the Lord gives us to warn us to take heed.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#56. You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.
Chick Corea
#57. Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.
Jennifer Skiff
#59. He said the dead had souls, but when I asked him
How that could be - I thought the dead were souls,
He broke my trance. Don't that make you suspicious
That there's something the dead are keeping back?
Yes, there's something the dead are keeping back.
Robert Frost
#60. It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.
P.G. Wodehouse
#61. The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
Abraham Kaplan
#62. I turned into Little Red Riding Hood. I made a cake, packed it up and went through the forest until I met the wolves. That's something the story got wrong, wolves don't travel solo, they hunt in packs.
Louise Welsh
#63. Six understood in that instant that he had something the ministers wanted and it had given him power among them. He had never been powerful among men.
Ayana Mathis
#64. Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
Rajneesh
#65. I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.
Alison Brie
#66. Because of love, of course. The more you love something, the harder it is to lose.
Ava Dellaira
#67. The sun shines directly on this great country, and it can be harvested, it's not owned by anybody. It's something the Jews and the Palestinians share and could work together to make the whole world a better place, not just this Middle East stuff, but the whole world.
Sarah Silverman
#68. The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
Dennis Wilson
#69. I was as real to him as he was to me and it struck me just then that I meant something to him. In whatever capacity he was able, I meant something. The irony of that epiphany made my gut twist.
C.J. Roberts
#70. The strongest moments in my life are when I'm filming. It's an adventure. As an actor I try to seduce someone, try to share something. The rest of my time is spent exploring experiences with women.
Jean-Pierre Leaud
#71. When you really want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it
Paulo Coelho
#72. The harder you work ... and visualize something, the luckier you get.
Seal
#73. So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.
Jim Capaldi
#74. Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear
Oprah Winfrey
#75. I nipped little kisses along his jawline. God, I just couldn't keep my hands or lips off of him. "God, you are the most delicious thing I have ever tasted."
He laughed. "That's something the vampire should be saying to you, not the other way around.
Tish Thawer
#76. When you are frightened, don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage.
Grace Ogot
#77. Brandt Everett was certifiably crazy so far as Shawn was concerned, and to keep him under control they had to find something the man liked more than blowing shit up.
Abigail Roux
#78. If a guy does us wrong the week before, and he does something the next week where he makes an effort to make it right, then I pretty much will let that go. You don't forget about it, but just seeing that the guy makes an effort the next week means a lot.
Tony Stewart
#79. When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#80. There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.
Harri Holkeri
#81. Truth has its place. In a courtroom, certainly. A boardroom? I don't know. I think truth is in the listener. Truth is something the listener bestows on a story
or not
J.R. Moehringer
#82. It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#83. There is no better insurance than the knowledge of how to do something the right way. There is no greater peace of mind than knowing you did it the right way.
Jerry G. West
#84. When you battle for something it is like you are trying to push your realization into the alternatives space, whereas when you choose something the space comes to you.
Vadim Zeland
#85. And I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.
Paulo Coelho
#86. You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.
Stephen Graham Jones
#87. I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.
Joan Severance
#88. Write something the skeptics will sneer at.
Marty Rubin
#89. Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
Viola Davis
#90. Rock music needs very supportive bras, I note, holding onto my bosoms as I leap up and down, doggedly. This is something the music press had never mentioned. They have so little guidance for girls.
Caitlin Moran
#91. The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda.
Chris Sanders
#92. A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.
Jason Statham
#93. A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.
Allen Grossman
#94. It was something ... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.
Joe Hill
#95. I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.
Chuck Palahniuk
#96. Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.
Gurinder Chadha
#97. The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.
A.J. Darkholme
#98. Looking at a man as though he was something the horse left behind isn't the way to elicit confidences.
Loretta Chase
#99. He clears his throat. 'Do you want to go to a movie or something?' The wings stop flapping. 'I can't. I'm sort of under house arrest.'
'Till when?'
'Till pigs fly and hell freezes over.'
'Soon, then.'
'Any minute.
Laura Ruby
#100. The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire, or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts
James Joyce
