Special Something Quotes

#1. I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

Lena Olin

#2. Sheesh, I'm surprised you've survived out here this long. Tell me, are you normal for a warrior or are you like a special day-release case or something?" "What?

Mina Carter

#3. I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

Sarah Sutton

#4. Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

Elizabeth Goudge

#5. There are a lot of great players ... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

Dizzy Gillespie

#6. Why don't we have more babies, Mom? Bailey has big sisters. I wish I had a big sister.
I don't know why, Fern. I tried to have more children, but sometimes we are given something so special, so wonderful, that one is enough.

Amy Harmon

#7. My whole thing is I want to affect history in a positive way. I want the timeline to be, 100 years from now, when we look back, it's going to be like, the world was like this, and then Shameik Moore hit the world, and everything changed for the better. It was a new light. Something special.

Shameik Moore

#8. But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.

Jostein Gaarder

#9. When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

Shunryu Suzuki

#10. It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

Urban Meyer

#11. You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Conrad Sewell

#12. Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Warren Buffett

#13. 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

#14. Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us.

Boris Pasternak

#15. That's what music did. It made you feel.
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Music, her grandfather always told her, was language. A special language, a gift from the Muses, something all people are born understanding but few people can thoroughly translate.

Sara Zarr

#16. We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#17. The connection we have is something special. We know each other since we were in the womb! You can't get any closer then that

Bill Kaulitz

#18. I love when brides tell me they want to do something special and unique, but I'm not a fan of doing anything too crazy.

Austin Scarlett

#19. There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

Doug Harvey

#20. But like any friendship or relationship, everything starts off as a tiny sprout-or so my granny says. If you neglect or smother it, it will eventually wither. But when nurtured and cared for properly...it will bloom into something special.

Instantmiso

#21. Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!

Gerry Lindgren

#22. We have the ability (under special circumstances) to transcend self-interest and lose ourselves (temporarily and ecstatically) in something larger than ourselves. I called this ability the hive switch.

Jonathan Haidt

#23. I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh & bone; something that will stay behind long after that part of me is gone. Writing makes me special, readers make me everlasting.

C.K. Webb

#24. I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew that with Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd at the helm that we were doing something very special.

Laurie Holden

#25. But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?

Geraldine Jewsbury

#26. I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.

Zac Efron

#27. I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

Gerard Butler

#28. I'm on an Isabel Marant kick. She does an amazing job of making things that are everyday-wearable but also special and a little bit different. I definitely like that she has a '70s western vibe. There's something that's very fun and vintage in what she's doing.

Jennifer Morrison

#29. 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

#30. I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.

Mel Gibson

#31. I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.

Jourdan Dunn

#32. The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong.

David Foster Wallace

#33. There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.

Bryan Singer

#34. I feel like there is an underappreciation for ball gowns. You see them on the runway, but they rarely ever get worn, so there is something special and unique in getting to wear these creations; it's wearable art.

Julie Macklowe

#35. I'm not worth it. But I want you to know, in case I ever do give you this letter and you read it first before you burn it or something, that for just a little while, you made me feel like I was really alive. Like I was special.

Cynthia Hand

#36. They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special.

Deborah Cox

#37. Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch.

Sammy Nelson

#38. When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become ... as strong as they can be.

Masashi Kishimoto

#39. The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

Margot Fonteyn

#40. My goal was to do something that incorporated all the stuff I do and have it feel like something new, like it was hopefully taking the stand-up special paradigm and turning it on its head.

Nick Kroll

#41. When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Robin Trower

#42. I'll see you tomorrow night."
Be ready," he said. "I'll have something special planned."
"I thought you didn't make plans."
"You're an exception to my rules, Monica Campbell.

Terri L. Austin

#43. People think you want them to do something or say something special ... you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

John Lennon

#44. Do something special on your birthday. Whatever you do, celebrate the fact that you're here, and that people love you and you love them. We only do this once.

Billy Crystal

#45. I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

W. Edwards Deming

#46. As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.

Eric Balfour

#47. If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.

Irwin Winkler

#48. Sometimes in life - very rarely, I might add - you meet someone and you know instantly they're going to mean something special to you.

Anonymous

#49. Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?

Lewis Foreman Day

#50. When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.

Tulsi Tanti

#51. He wanted to tell himself that Miracle was just a girl, but he knew that wasn't the case. Miracle wasn't just a girl. She was ... something special.

M. Leighton

#52. The Clash had a unique, special relationship with Scotland. Perhaps it was something to do with the energy, anger and beauty in their music. In Scotland at that time, there was a lot of to be angry about. And a great need of some energy and beauty.

John Niven

#53. The whole house smells of Granny. There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.

Fredrik Backman

#54. I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

Ethan Hawke

#55. You know, Annie, a long time ago an old man told me beauty doesn't mean much in a woman. It disappears with age. But he said some women have something better. They have a special glow that lasts all their life and just gets richer. You're like that. You really shine.

Ellen O'Connell

#56. It's really special to be a part of something that's really changing lives.

Debby Ryan

#57. Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

Patch Adams

#58. There's something special about her. When she helped me with her touch-"
"Exactly what was she touching that was so memorable for you?"
"Watch your mouth.

Michelle Rowen

#59. There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success.

JohnA Passaro

#60. I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

Jakob Dylan

#61. At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

Liam Hemsworth

#62. If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots.

Julie Heldman

#63. I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

Antonio Damasio

#64. I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me.

Alan Shearer

#65. I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.

Jose Andres

#66. Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.

Armando Iannucci

#67. There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#68. As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.

Junior Seau

#69. Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early." I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special.
"Well, a lady isn't exactly what they are expecting.

Rumi Antoinette

#70. Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

Dolly Parton

#71. Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.

Karen Tayleur

#72. Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Mark Epstein

#73. In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

Zach Condon

#74. I thought creators were supposed to tell their younglings they were special. I didn't know mine meant something more when she told me. I could've never known what she'd seen in the water. My future was a secret she kept bound up inside her.

K.P. Ambroziak

#75. In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

Yo-Yo Ma

#76. As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special

Jason Momoa

#77. Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Paul Gauguin

#78. Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

Neil Patrick Harris

#79. London 'Harry Potter' premieres are very special events: There is this sense of love and ownership and pride, and it's just palpable. It's a very different feel from an L.A. premiere. It's nice to be a part of something that's so positive.

Michael Goldenberg

#80. God made something special when He made you.

Tricia Goyer

#81. You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It's one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known genetic cause. Your uncle Albert was something different, and worse: He was a man of faith.

Charles Stross

#82. I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Eddie Marsan

#83. If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

Sarah Dessen

#84. No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Barbara De Angelis

#85. I'm missing something, you know? That special 'sparkle' that ;life is supposed to bring. I have the job, the child, the family, the apartment and the friends, but I've lost the sparkle./

Cecelia Ahern

#86. At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.

James Frank

#87. Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

P. J. O'Rourke

#88. America is a unique place. The value part of American foreign policy is something I think is very laudable, but it is uniquely American. And it is part of what makes America special.

Michael Oren

#89. Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

Yolanda Adams

#90. That girl she was trying to reach- she must have been running from something. She must have been someone special, for her friend to keep trying so hard. Too bad she was gone now.

Nina LaCour

#91. Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

Katy Perry

#92. It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

Vladimir Nabokov

#93. I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

Chelsea Handler

#94. I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.

Michael Palin

#95. My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.

Oliver Sacks

#96. In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about (Stan) Musial, (Ted) Williams and (Jackie) Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.

Hank Aaron

#97. You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!

Les Brown

#98. If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.

Patti Smith

#99. The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

Frank Iero

#100. If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.

Hugh MacLeod