Top 100 Something You Quotes
#1. War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
Salman Rushdie
#2. When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.
Pharrell Williams
#3. On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
Edwidge Danticat
#5. A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#6. If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.
El Anatsui
#7. I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.
Scott Rudin
#8. Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.
Courtney Summers
#9. An epiphany is a visceral understanding of something you already know.
Jen Sincero
#10. Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.
Jaime Winstone
#11. Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.
Jeff Bezos
#12. To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
Carrie Brownstein
#13. When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.
Neil Gaiman
#14. I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he's retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you're retired, people don't bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
Bill Murray
#15. You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it ...
Richard Bandler
#16. Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.
Doug Dorst
#17. Men have sacrificed so much for their beliefs. Country. Kings. Queens. Political systems. God. Love . It doesn't seem very noble to simply let something you believe in, someone you love, just walk away. To give up without a fight.
Dan Skinner
#18. Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.
William W. Johnstone
#19. If you can laugh with your friends over something, you own it.
Jill Soloway
#20. Running is something you just do. You don't need a goal. You don't need a race. You don't need the hype of a so-called fitness craze. All you need is a cheap pair of shoes and some time; the rest will follow.
Ted Corbitt
#21. Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
Andy Stanley
#22. Don't wait for other people to tell you whether you can do something. You can do something whenever you want.
Nick Lang
#23. Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.
Matthew Macfadyen
#24. There's something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.
T.D. Jakes
#25. For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.
Chris Daughtry
#26. No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
Zola Jesus
#27. My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea that you have to go national.
Gary Hirshberg
#28. Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere.
Seth Shostak
#29. I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.
Emma Watson
#30. When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing.
Jonah Hill
#31. you can't impact something you don't touch.
Lisa Wingate
#32. Banking is no longer somewhere you go, it's something you do.
Brett King
#33. The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
James Kelman
#34. You do not recognize what truth is, so you call it a trick. That is why you are not wise, Jenna Zan Arbor. Wisdom is something you cannot identify because you cannot measure it with your instruments. - Qui-Gon Jinn
Jude Watson
#35. When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever.
~Allen Walker
Katsura Hoshino
#36. Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.
Dexter Holland
#37. It's not something you can put your finger on, like height (though he's taller than me) or strength (though he's stronger than me), but there's something there. This power. Like being ordinary is just a mask he wears.
Alexis Hall
#38. The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about
Wayne W. Dyer
#39. If you love someone or something, you acknowledge and are expressing your oneness with it. Love is simply the recognition of Oneness.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#40. It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.
Suzy Welch
#42. Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.
Alyson Noel
#43. As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.
Tyson Chandler
#44. Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.
Panda Bear
#45. Realm swayed and put his hand over his heart, watching after her. A sharp pain from knowing that you want something you don't deserve. That you can never have again.
Suzanne Young
#46. The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.
Robyn Davidson
#47. Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.
Douglas Coupland
#48. I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."
pg 287
Veronica Roth
#49. When Lauren hired a woman to come to the party and sell sex toys, Kristi turned to her and said, 'This seems like something you would want more than I would. I mean, I have Todd now and we're getting married, so I don't really need a vibrator. But it's fun for the single girls, I guess.
Jennifer Close
#50. It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.
John Francis Daley
#51. Amanda says if there's something you really want, you can figure out a way to get it. She says being discouraged is a waste of time. I
Margaret Atwood
#52. Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
Iggy Pop
#53. In our family, forgiveness is something you pray for, something you yearn to receive - but so seldom do you give it to others.
Uvi Poznansky
#54. Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it.
Tennessee Williams
#55. When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.
Sarah Addison Allen
#56. No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.
Dave Grohl
#57. The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.
Lena Headey
#58. Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give
Gregory David Roberts
#59. I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
Diane Arbus
#60. We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but ... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.
Iliza Shlesinger
#61. I was a little crazy. You know how it is, how you want to rush into something you know is going to happen, no matter what it is. I guess lovers and suicides both know that feeling.
William Faulkner
#62. She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
Holly Black
#64. Never read books you aren't sure about . . . even supposing that these bad books are very well written from a literary point of view. Let me ask you this: Would you drink something you knew was poisoned just because it was offered to you in a golden cup?
John Bosco
#65. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.
Chris Martin
#66. And you hate me. "For something I didn't do and something you didn't see. Hate
Carlyle Toussaint
#67. When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.
Umberto Eco
#68. To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.
W.G. Sebald
#69. Nobody can bring peace here. It's not something you can import from America. It has to come from this place, from the people." "If
Anat Talshir
#70. If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.
Elle Fanning
#71. Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to do, so you're going to take whatever life comes with that.
Claudia Rankine
#72. Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.
Shaun Hick
#73. With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.
David Slade
#74. Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.
John Baldessari
#75. If you're over age 50, the internet is something you're just learning about.
Harry Reid
#76. This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?
Mick Ebeling
#77. It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.
Alex Flinn
#78. If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.
Selma Blair
#79. I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
Greg Lynn
#80. Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
John C. Maxwell
#81. There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital.
Lee Ainslie
#82. Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.
Gary Player
#83. It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.
Diane Arbus
#84. If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#85. Shanta shook her head emphatically, "That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented. Not the memory of a form of words addressed to somebody in your imagination.
Aldous Huxley
#86. I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.
Lizzy Caplan
#87. Sometimes all the energy you put into something you think matters doesn't matter one bit.
Lynn Plourde
#88. A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.
Les Paul
#89. Anyone who tells you he knows the mind of God is selling something. You can take that to the bank.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#90. There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself
Mark Owen
#91. Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people it and look out through other eyes.
Neil Gaiman
#92. The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.
Elspeth Huxley
#93. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin.
Annie Dillard
#94. Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.
Dorothy B. Hughes
#95. Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'
Michael N. Castle
#96. Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
Barbara Kingsolver
#97. It's odd how something you've dreamed of half your life looks different once you get inside.
Michelle Gable
#98. And we danced, and we drankAnd I've seen something you probably never got the chance to seeDon't worry, MaryCause I'm taking care of DannyAnd he's taking care of me
Dido Armstrong
#99. A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.
Cassandra Clare
#100. That's what hope was. Clinging to something you weren't sure would ever be yours. But you had to hold on anyway, because without it, what was the point?
Jennifer Rush
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