Top 100 Something You're Not Quotes
#1. If you give to get something, you're not giving, you're trading. Your motives are second in importance only to your actions
Jose Silva Jr.
#2. Find someone to push him ever sunward.
There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.
Don DeLillo
#3. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
Walter Isaacson
#5. I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
J. R. Martinez
#6. It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.
Stella McCartney
#7. Extremists and their supports cause you to align yourself with something you're not in order to get as far away as possible from the something you're really not.
Sloane Crosley
#8. By not letting me turn you into something you're not, you've helped me be more of myself.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#9. It's definitely fun to play something you're not, which is always a good time. Who doesn't want to get to act like a jerk or a douche, every now and then?
Rob Riggle
#11. Even thought you've been acting like a jerk all night, you're still here. I could tell you were angry. So you're angry; at least you're something. You're not nothing anymore.
Jennifer R. Hubbard
#12. I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it If you don't ask for something, you're not going to get it.
Ashley Graham
#13. Is there something else you have to say? Something you're not telling me?" "Yes. Up your game, Stark. These might be the End Times. I don't want you half-assing your way through them." It's a good party-line statement, but it's not what he's thinking about. There's something else.
Richard Kadrey
#14. Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.
Will Champlin
#15. The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I'm not trying to hide it, but it's something you're not to worry about.
Jostein Gaarder
#16. I just think it's really important to be yourself and not trying to be something you're not.
Jared Leto
#17. We all have our worries about our bodies and our looks. We just need to make the best of our lovely, wonky selves. The key is never to compare and try to be something you're not.
Miranda Hart
#18. It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
Laura Marling
#19. I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.
Mia Wasikowska
#20. Die knowing something. You're not here long.
Walker Evans
#21. If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.
Julie Chen
#22. Take a leap of faith, because if you're not risking something, you're not truly living.
Robert Palasciano
#23. If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
Shelby Lynne
#24. If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
Dean Koontz
#26. Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
Terry Brooks
#27. But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself
avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.
-Aphrodite
Rick Riordan
#28. It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.
Albert Brooks
#29. Don't try to be something you're not. If you're goofy, be goofy if you're serious be serious. And no matter what, give everything you have and enjoy it while you can because it can all be taken away from you at any given moment.
Derek Holland
#30. Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not.
Christina Aguilera
#31. It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
Maya Lin
#32. This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.
Michael Strahan
#33. Our investigation is ongoing," he said.
"Do you know something you're not telling me?"
"Yes."
"Right. Well, at least someone knows something. That's a nice bloody change.
Derek Landy
#34. whatever life hands you, deal with it. You can't hide. Whoever you are, whatever you've done, whatever the circumstances, own it. Be yourself, don't try to hide, don't try to be someone or something you're not.
Tracy Brogan
#35. There's something desirable about anything you're to as opposed to something you're not.
John Steinbeck
#36. It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.
Joel Osteen
#37. You have nothing, Chloe? Build something. You're not part of their web anymore, you can do whatever the hell you want to do
Amy Smolcic
#38. During the Olympics they're really strict about what you're allowed to wear. You get a lot of clothes, but everything is pre-ordered. We had a fitting over the summer. You're not allowed to wear your own clothes. No logos, nothing. You get fined if you wear something you're not supposed to wear.
Henrik Lundqvist
#39. Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
Ville Valo
#40. I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.
Bella Hadid
#41. I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.
David Letterman
#42. If you think you're good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it [ ... ]. Is it worth trying to be something you're not? Just because it's right?
Jen Wang
#43. Money is a living entity, and it responds to energy exactly the same way you do. It is drawn to those who welcome it, those who respect it. Wouldn't you rather be with people who respect you and who don't want you to be something you're not? Your money feels the same way.
Suze Orman
#44. I just think you should concentrate more on what you are good at, and the strengths you already have, instead of worrying about changing yourself into something you're not.
Nicole Peeler
#45. I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.
Alan Shepard
#46. If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.
Eugene Cernan
#47. I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.
Gore Verbinski
#48. Don't be afraid to put anything on paper because the best art has some element of danger to it and if you hold back then people will kind of be able to tell that you're trying to be something you're not.
Max Bemis
#49. You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.
Gemma Arterton
#50. If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. - Andrew Lewis, under the alias Blue_beetle, on the Web site MetaFilter
Eli Pariser
#51. Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.
Susan Cain
#52. You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
Sidney Poitier
#53. The spirit of what we do is that you do what you feel and when you feel it and not feel you have to be something you're not: you have to be honest to yourself.
Brian Viglione
#54. Don't be something you're not. Unless you can be a fabulous unicorn. Always be a fabulous unicorn.
PewDiePie
#55. You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#56. I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like that a lot.
Sean William Scott
#57. If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.
Julie Benz
#58. If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
Jeremy Irvine
#59. If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
Takeru Kobayashi
#60. Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.
Don DeLillo
#61. If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
Louis L'Amour
#62. To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.
Issey Miyake
#64. You know those moments, whether you're in them or not, you feel something more than what you intended to feel, what you wanted to feel.
Shey Stahl
#65. But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.
Julian Barnes
#66. I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: 'South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.
Bill Hader
#67. You'd kill yourself for regognition, kill yourself to never ever stop. You broke there mirror, you're turning into something your not.
Radiohead
#68. You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.
Peter Thiel
#69. Humanity is a very interesting phenomenon. If you peel back the layers, if you're brave enough, you realize it's something that's not for the faint of heart-" Angel M.B. Chadwick
Angel M.B. Chadwick
#70. What I mean is that you aren't even supposed to know we exist. Therefore, how can you completely understand something if you're not supposed to know it's there?
Christina Daley
#71. Sounds to me like you're praying Violet, not wishing. When we wish, it's usually for something frivolous...Something not serious. Like what you want for your birthday. Prayers are for more serious things." -Mom
Brenda Woods
#72. I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.
Ben Folds
#73. I had things with numbers - because I love numbers - but it's not something I'm proud of. I'm proud that I was able to send them away, because you're much more present.
Penelope Cruz
#74. Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.
Joan Armatrading
#75. Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more to offer than what they're trying to squeeze you into, some kind of box or something like that.
Sasha Grey
#76. You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.
Stockard Channing
#77. The message was that if something is free, you should only take the best. If, on the other hand, you're forced to pay, it's best to lower the bar and not be so choosy.
David Sedaris
#78. When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.
Peter Jackson
#79. When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.
Jonny Greenwood
#80. If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.
Edward Gorey
#81. You're the most experienced investigator I've got who's not tied up in something, and I can't ask the Consort to look look into it, because A) she and Curran are working on something else and B) when the Consort gets involved, half of the world blows up.
Ilona Andrews
#82. When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.
Nina Jacobson
#83. Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons," Shinzo told her. "Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that's why you're here. To do something extraordinary.
Kaylin McFarren
#84. I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.
Charles Schumer
#85. If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
Zakk Wylde
#86. It's unfortunate that school is so often regarded as a one-size-fits-all kind of deal. And if it doesn't fit, you're treated as if there is something wrong with you; so it is you, not the system, which is failing.
Sophia Amoruso
#87. If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
Jerry Doyle
#88. There is nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you're not hunting, but - being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle.
William Golding
#89. You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.
Bernard Hopkins
#90. Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.
Jodi Picoult
#91. I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when you don't have to go to school. School should be something that you love. Life should be something that you love.
Charles Eisenstein
#92. If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.
Marjane Satrapi
#93. I further know that if God has something special for you, you have a knowledge of it inside you, which causes you not to be satisfied with anything that isn't this thing. You're "restless" until you find it.
Peggy Noonan
#94. Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.
Jimmy Page
#95. (Mutters under his breath) Smartass AI. (Louder) Well, we're not dead yet, so it could be worse. I'll let you know if we blow up. (Under breath) Let's see how far we can push before we really do break something critical.
Rolf Nelson
#96. The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.
Richard Carlson
#97. Caroline, I'm mad enough to beat the shit out of you. But I'm not so mad I can't think. You fingered me to the cops because there's something you know that you're scared to talk about. I want to know what it is.
Sara Paretsky
#98. Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.
Ernie Els
#99. Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
Peter Guber
#100. You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.
Greg Plitt
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