Top 100 Something With Quotes
#1. You see, that sword which I pulled out of the stone in the vision represented my kingdom position which I had to embrace and do something with.
Jesse Cupp
#2. I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
Brian Selznick
#3. Taste and see that the LORD is good," says the psalmist (Ps 34:8). To "taste" is, as we say, to "try" a mouthful of something, with a view to appreciating its flavor. A dish may look good, and be well recommended by the cook, but we do not know its real quality till we have tasted it.
J.I. Packer
#4. I hope everything works in our favor. The show ["Are We There Yet?"] is cool. It's family fare. We ain't aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we're making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.
Ice Cube
#5. Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.
Joshua Bell
#6. Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.
John Piper
#7. And isn't part of your life doing something with the gifts God has given you?
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#8. Everyone has problems. Everyone has a shitty life. But people who embrace that and do something with the misery are seen as the abnormal ones. And the people who apply normalcy like a camouflage suit are seen as the normal ones.
Andersen Prunty
#9. It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.
Sophie Hannah
#10. When you do something with all your heart and good intentions the small life turns magical.
Bella Meraki
#11. How can I miss something with a physical ache and be absolutely terrified of it at the same time?
Samantha Towle
#12. Not like a heaven where you ride unicorns, play harps, and live in a mansion made of clouds. But yes. I believe in something with a capital S. Always have.
John Green
#13. Many learn from the past
but few do something with it.
Take Action.
Struggles bring strength to strive and succeed.
Farshad Asl
#14. When we do something with a quite simple, clear mind, we have no notion or shadows, and our activity is strong and straightforward. But when we do something with a complicated mind, in relation to other things or people, or society, our activity becomes very complex.
Shunryu Suzuki
#15. Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?
Jeff Lemire
#16. In fact, "talent" is as common as mud; what's rare is the motivation to sit down and actually do something with one's talent, the discipline to do it regularly, and the persistence to stick with it until it's finished.
Patricia C. Wrede
#17. God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.
Fulton J. Sheen
#18. The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
Jack Hanna
#19. Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die.
Farshad Asl
#20. The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.
Chris I. Naylor
#21. It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.
Matthew Bourne
#22. But in those eyes and in the lines of her exquisite lips there was something with which his brother might well be passionately in love, but which perhaps could not be loved for long.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#23. If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.
Donald Miller
#24. I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.
Jonathan Demme
#26. I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.
Ozzy Osbourne
#27. I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.
Mike Love
#28. You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are on this planet to produce something with your soul. Your body is simply and merely the tool of your soul.
Neale Donald Walsch
#29. When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
A.R. Rahman
#30. The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
Henry Rollins
#31. More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps.
Jenny will do well enough.
Juliet Marillier
#32. Meeting obstacles can be a blessing! Just know the lesson and change something with the lessons and you shall see a new lesson with a blessing!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. On December third I started following commands. my OT told me to do something with a ball, and I did it!
Amy Rankin
#34. On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
James Blunt
#35. He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.
Robert Creeley
#36. You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?
James Lee Burke
#37. I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.
Robert Reich
#38. There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
Peter Banks
#39. If you are going to share something with a person, first look on their social media accounts and see how they have handled other people trust. If someone has shared the secrets of others, they will share yours.
John Patrick Hickey
#40. In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.
Laura Owens
#41. Almost every media organization is doing something with live events now, and that's because they feel they can break through that way.
Tina Brown
#42. The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.
Tyler Cowen
#43. If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
Maddie Hasson
#44. I think there are bound to be obstacles in any path to success. I mean, I'm Jewish, and there's nothing I can do about that. Instead of sitting around and feeling sorry for myself, I got over it and did something with my life.
Zach Braff
#45. As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.
Karen Finerman
#46. Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.
Vladimir Nabokov
#47. I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.
Jason Wu
#48. For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.
Michelle Gomez
#49. Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
Minnie Driver
#50. But it left something with him; as long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#51. Have you ever chopped down something with an ax? Not fun. I now have serious doubts regarding George Washington and his cherry tree.
Tammy Blackwell
#52. I'm genuinely curious about people, and I'm always interested when people do share with me. But I would not want someone to share something with me and then after the fact feel uncomfortable or regret it.
Alison Rosen
#53. There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.
Tom Courtenay
#54. I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.
Akshay Kumar
#55. You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius ...
Margot Asquith
#56. But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.
Byron Katie
#57. I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years.
Danielle Dutton
#58. I think we filmed a lot of the recording and it would be nice to do something with it but you know, videos are tricky because we know how to make albums but I'm not very good at video editing .
Jess Margera
#59. Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.
Maggie Stiefvater
#60. It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.
Paul Heyman
#62. You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.
Lyle Lovett
#63. Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.
Chuck Spezzano
#64. Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
Alex Flinn
#65. I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
Simon Van Booy
#66. He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating something hot and comforting for another person.
Charlie Jane Anders
#67. If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
Anton Corbijn
#68. When someone stubbornly insists that they saw something with their own eyes, i take it as a statement mixed with wishful thinking. As what they want to believe.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#69. Rose Hathaway: "what's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice."
Dimitri Belikov: "Maybe you should hit harder.
Richelle Mead
#70. And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.
Edward Hirsch
#71. I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.
Hayley Atwell
#72. I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#73. To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man.
Arthur Bryant
#74. I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards.
Jordin Sparks
#75. When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
Ice-T
#76. I never thought I would be doing something with television. It changes just in the fact that you walk outside and watch your step and not trust too willingly. Other than that I have stayed true to myself, kept my old friends, and the whole good deal.
Whitney Port
#77. I crossed my arms. "You're saying I'm not usually polite?"
He staged a sigh. "It's amazing how quickly I can regret saying something with you ... "
"I'm polite. I'm very fucking polite.
Lani Diane Rich
#78. The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#79. My book is called, Shut Up And Stop Whining: How To Do Something With Your Life Besides Think About Yourself.
Bill Watterson
#80. I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
Madison Smartt Bell
#81. This doesn't have fuck-all to do with independence. You're scared because you know if you start something with me, it'll go to a place you and Dane never went. He won't stand by you
he's already proved it. He went pussy on you. And now he gets laid for that?
Jack Travis
Lisa Kleypas
#82. We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.
Samuel Florman
#83. And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.
Laini Taylor
#84. I loved Super-Monkey; always wanted to do something with him but it never happened.
Elliot S! Maggin
#85. I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.
Carolina Herrera
#86. Wisdom is strength. Collect yourself, whatever you are, into something with a purpose.'
Anne Rice
#87. If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.
Isabel Gillies
#88. I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.
David Bromstad
#89. It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
Rachel Kushner
#90. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
Billy Collins
#91. I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.
Andre Kertesz
#92. Intimacy is about sharing something with your spouse that you don't share with anybody else. It's letting him in. It's laughing together. And it's also feeling that deep hunger for each other!
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#93. Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.
Henepola Gunaratana
#94. Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment.
Seth Godin
#95. I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
Stanley Tucci
#96. They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage.
Steven Morrissey
#97. I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.
Jaromir Jagr
#98. Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
Benicio Del Toro
#99. Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.
Angelina Jolie
#100. Whether it's something with a chunkier heel or a moto style, you need a great pair of boots.
Brad Goreski
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