Top 100 Something To Quotes
#1. I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
Paul Theroux
#2. Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
Sun Ra
#3. You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.
Miley Cyrus
#4. I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.
Brandon Boyd
#5. It becomes a burden if you lean on him too much. He is only human, and he has his own problems. Show him that you'll be an equal partner, which means that you also have something to contribute.
Sherry Argov
#6. If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
Chris Evans
#7. I'm a witch woman
high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts ... I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.
Sandra Cisneros
#8. Jodi in tactical gear was something to behold. Pert, a lot shorter than I am, blond hair tucked under a helmet, cinched into body armor never intended to mold to the body of a curvy woman. Ugly but efficient attire. Someone needs to talk to armor designers about female body shapes and style.
Faith Hunter
#9. There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.
William Eggleston
#10. Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.
Italo Calvino
#11. Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart.
Michael Josephson
#12. I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.
Alix Kates Shulman
#13. Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.
George R R Martin
#14. I married a woman from New Orleans, so I had family here. Post-Katrina, I had a number of friends call me up and say they wanted to do something to help the community - not just Habitat for Humanity or Red Cross, we've done that, but what can we do for the community.
James Coulter
#15. Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#16. I am always going to be working on location, even if I have a 20-year career. Talk to me in 15 years and I will still be working on location. It's something I can always do better. Right now, it's not nearly where it could be, so it gives me something to work on every day.
Justin Verlander
#17. I think that's what we're all trying to do as actors, is create some sort of passion from people and allow them to have something to really care about and something they enjoy and look forward to on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, whatever it is, where you get to sit down and escape.
Serinda Swan
#18. I'm a believer, but an unsettled one. I think it has something to do with the fact that my grandmother always told me she would come back and tickle my feet at night time when she passed away. She hasn't gotten me yet. But I keep the blanket over my feet at night, no matter how hot it is.
Shari Sebbens
#19. As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.
Lorraine Toussaint
#20. A boss should be respectful of everybody. He should still make sure everybody knows that he is the boss, without having to say it 24/7, but by him approaching you in a way that led you to know that you mean something to the company.
Kevin Clash
#21. Give the agent something easy to reject, something to justify his authority - that way they won't look too closely at the rest of your things.
Robert Ferrigno
#22. I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.
Steve Coppell
#23. For me style has something to do with your inner attitude towards clothes and the awareness what sits well on yourself.
Matthew Williamson
#24. Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
#25. Parents who experience pause from "the unnecessary beauty of an ice storm coating trees," while their kids - who "bewilder well," she writes - are simply looking for something to throw.
Durga Chew-Bose
#26. Eat my food or die."
"If I eat your food I WILL die." He belches before reaching in the fridge for a soda. "Yeah, whatever. Gimme something to commit a slow suicide with.
Addison Moore
#27. Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
Pearl Bailey
#28. It seems that what God does most of the time when He has something to say is this ... He doesn't pass us messages, instead he passes us each other.
Bob Goff
#29. There's always something to eat, if you're hungry enough.
Terry Pratchett
#30. The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.
Wassily Kandinsky
#31. I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to ... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.
Jake Abel
#32. I can't remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It's like, I'll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.
Richard Gere
#33. Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
Anais Nin
#34. I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.
Alton Brown
#35. Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. - Savielly Tartakover (Polish GM)
Katherine Neville
#36. In my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink.
Christopher Titus
#37. A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.
Peter Rock
#39. To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.
Jacques Ranciere
#41. Money is just something to be circulated.
Aidan Quinn
#42. In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.
Dash Mihok
#43. Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.
Vance Havner
#44. If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit in our abandonment; it is miserable commercial self-interest.
Oswald Chambers
#45. No matter what God does for us, no matter how many calls, opportunities, or invitations we are offered, we can always find something to complain about. We can always rationalize our way out of having to repent and change our ways.
The Daughters Of St. Paul
#46. Rules give anarchy something to aim at. Points
Jodi Taylor
#47. They thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
they were simply not
crazy enough
in the head
to sit down to a
typer
and let the words bang
out.
they didn't want to
write
they wanted to
succeed at
writing.
Charles Bukowski
#48. When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.
David Atwood
#49. Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
Martin Freeman
#50. I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.
Joyce DeWitt
#51. Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.
Anthony Hopkins
#52. I never intended on moving to 'The Good Wife' permanently, but in terms of a next move and something to do to make myself feel good, this was a great opportunity.
Lisa Edelstein
#53. It's a kind of meditation, especially when you wake up before everyone else. And it gives my hands something to do while I scheme." "Is that what I've been doing wrong?" Maeve wondered aloud, stirring a lump of sugar into her coffee. "I've never actually set aside time to deliberately scheme.
Gabriella Pierce
#54. Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form.
[Letter to Max E. Feckler, Oct. 26, 1914]
Jack London
#55. We all need something to soften the sharp edges. To give us balance. Otherwise, I think we'd find ourselves stumbling around in the dark like lost souls.
Karen White
#56. Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
Al Franken
#57. Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.
Robert Genn
#58. I'm always willing to talk to somebody if they have something to say that is interesting.
Nikki Sixx
#59. Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.
Henrik Ibsen
#60. Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about 'Express Yourself,' and she's turned Madonna's fourth-best single of 1989 into her own instant-classic club anthem, 'Born This Way.'
Rob Sheffield
#61. I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.
Brian Evenson
#62. I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.
Kelly Reichardt
#63. When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
Josh Peck
#64. Relaxed Empiricism
I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
Bill Bailey
#65. I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.
Ronald Reagan
#66. If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.
Peter McWilliams
#67. Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant bums.
Patti Smith
#68. Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously - because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the toilet - but it's also not something to totally disregard.
Dan Harmon
#69. Chinese ... companies do not have to think about whether they do something to enhance their competitive edge in international markets.
Li Shufu
#70. For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
Patrick Ness
#71. We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.
John Phillips
#72. Let our enemies come. They have a reckoning waiting at the end of my blade- and my siren's vengeance to deal with. Let our enemies come, and I will kill them all. So long as you're at my side, I have something to fight for.
Laura Thalassa
#73. Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.
Dan Jones
#74. I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.
Taylor Lautner
#75. If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.
Florence King
#76. Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]
Ovid
#77. Byrd: It is important because we are giving her something to take away with her when she goes.
Lalo: What will she take with her?
Byrd: Us.
Sophie: And what will we have when she's gone?
Byrd looked at Sophie and shook her head because she couldn't speak
Patricia MacLachlan
#78. The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.
Kevin Costner
#79. The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.
Thomas Dubay
#80. To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
Alice Walker
#81. The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act but they can inspire us and they inspire people like myself and money others in the conservation movement to act on their behalf.
Ian Cohen
#82. Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
Ira Sachs
#83. When I was at my height on TV, I was always busy - rehearsing, practising my impressions, learning new material. When that faded, I had to find another way to be creative. Houses were something to do instead. They saved me.
Bobby Davro
#84. In all kinds of composition, there are two things necessary: first, to have something to say; second, to say it.
J. Willis Westlake
#85. If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.
Anthony Anderson
#86. Whether I'm unduly sensitive to this pain because I'm a princess - could the whole world be the pea under my mattress? - I don't know, but because I'm a princess, I might be able to do something to help lessen humanity's pain.
Tom Robbins
#87. Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.
Ronald Reagan
#88. Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.
Haruki Murakami
#89. A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.
Tove Lo
#90. Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It's the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.
Zander Sherman
#91. Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
#92. Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
Simone De Beauvoir
#93. Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?
Georgia O'Keeffe
#94. Destiny is a gift, something to rise to. Fate is something to make for yourself.
Tera Lynn Childs
#95. Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.
Gloria Estefan
#96. I'm a human being first and foremost, and I have something to say that I think is worthwhile. 'Blue Caprice' is just the second installment of so much more coming.
Isaiah Washington
#97. A lot of people got something to prove. If I had something to prove, I proved it already, so why do I have to go showboat? Like, I don't say I got the hottest song in the world. And, personally, I think otherwise.
Fetty Wap
#98. Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the "cojones" to carry our argument to the people.
Nick Clegg
#99. Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.
Craig Armstrong
#100. A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.
Sally Phillips
