Top 100 S'what Quotes
#1. I'm starting to think Mordecai bound you to someone's grandmother instead of the earth, because that's what you're starting to sound like!" barked Harold in a slightly louder voice. "Just like my Nanna, next you'll be complaining about your rheumatism.
Michael G. Manning
#2. The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That's what gives rise to dictators.
Donald J. Trump
#3. I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity.
Jack Layton
#4. How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!
Mark Steyn
#5. Emma Burke is different from anything else.
She's what I'm supposed to have. She's what my first kiss should have been. And she's the only kiss I ever want to remember.
Ginger Scott
#6. That's what the myrtle means. Myrtle for marriage, ivy for faithfulness, ferns for sincerity, and rosemary for remembrance.
Jude Knight
#7. Is there a lot of stuff you don't understand? she said & I said pretty much the whole thing & she nodded & said that's what she thought, but it was nice to hear it anyways & we sat there on the porch swing, listening to the wind & growing up together.
Brian Andreas
#8. Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Albert Camus
#9. You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that's what being alive means. Our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.
Ava Dellaira
#10. Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.
Thomas Frank
#11. I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
Wale
#12. Here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B ...
John Geddes
#13. The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.
Sydney Pollack
#14. I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!
Raini Rodriguez
#15. Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#16. I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#17. Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'
Joseph Campbell
#18. I have two children. They're grown children. I don't think they particularly enjoy it when I'm in a dangerous situation, but they also understand that this is something I feel strongly about. It's what I've done my whole life.
Martha Raddatz
#19. Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.
Patrick Rothfuss
#20. To be a writer is to constantly evolve and keep ones imagination expanding and that's what make a great author and artist.
Adona M. Pierre
#21. Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.
Adrian Grenier
#22. You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives ... that's real. The rest is a story for publication.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#23. That's what you need to be writing about. Not the increased crime rate, but the increased tolerance for criminals to do whatever they want and not be held accountable.
Diane Moore
#24. A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.
Nikki Sixx
#26. It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us.
D.R. Hedge
#27. The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.
Jeff VanderMeer
#28. Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
Andrea Arnold
#29. Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
Nigel Kneale
#30. That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.
Monique Roffey
#31. There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.
Marshall Faulk
#32. I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
Parker Stevenson
#33. I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.
Julie Walters
#34. You have not heard the last of me, Sorceress Perenelle," he sobbed. "You will never escape alive!" Fighting the wave of exhaustion that washed over her, Perenelle turned back to the ladder and pulled herself upward. "That's what everyone says," she murmured. "But I'm still alive,
Michael Scott
#35. How you mean, 'doughnut hole'?" Ti-Jeanne had asked. "That's what they call it when an inner city collapses and people run to the suburbs," he'd answered.
Nalo Hopkinson
#36. Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.
Stephanie Seymour
#37. I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
Jewel
#38. It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.
Billy Corgan
#39. Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
This is right.
Veronica Roth
#40. By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.
Eric Bristow
#41. I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.
Kevin Costner
#42. You really need to give us much love as you possibly can. Be kind. Be of service to people, not for you to gain anything but just out of pure love. That's what people are lacking, that pure genuine love.
DeLisha Milton-Jones
#43. We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
Warren Spector
#44. We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.
John McCain
#46. It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
Vance Joy
#47. Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means that you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed.
And if I don't know what's needed?
That's what your friends are for. We've all got different strengths. Together, we'll figure it out.
Rick Riordan
#48. We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.
David Axelrod
#49. Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.
Patricia Heaton
#50. My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.
Ben Saunders
#51. I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
Lionel Richie
#52. All iron comes from stars," Seeker replied, her hand still not quite brushing the hilt of the blade. "It's the last element they can burn before they go nova. Iron's the skeletons of stars, and it's what makes our blood red. I
Elizabeth Bear
#53. I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.
Michael Bergin
#54. The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' The first single. It's effing brilliant, right? ... That's what everybody wants ... They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years.
They just want to hold your hand.
Rachel Cohn
#55. Just because you're good at something doesn't mean that's what you should be doing.
Shelly Crane
#56. That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot
#57. There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.
Tom Waits
#58. A Cue from Nature
Run outside during a thunderstorm
That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration
That's what unlonely is like
David Levithan
#59. Hope. That's what...that's what a good wife would do. But there's also a time to ...cry.' She reached out and touched him gently on the cheek. Her hand was soft, but far too warm. The last tender caress was both the warmest and the coldest touch All on ever remembered.
Julius Bailey
#60. There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.
Mike Royer
#61. The media theme was, "June is when you win the presidency," because that's what they thought Hillary [Clinton] was doing. Hillary was running ads condemning [Donald] Trump, characterizing Trump, marginalizing Trump.
Rush Limbaugh
#62. I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.
Mike Ross
#63. That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.
Shelby Lynne
#64. I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.
John Sayles
#65. Everything and everybody that's busted can be fixed. That's what I think.
Kathleen Glasgow
#66. Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.
Rob Manuel
#67. I do feel very honored to get all this attention. Basically, what I need to do is to go out there and perform. That's what I'm intending to do.
Masahiro Tanaka
#68. As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.
Alessandra Ambrosio
#69. What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.
Brian Posehn
#70. I think that's the reality of the business. It's not about what you did. It's what have you done for me lately. We're in the production business. What you did before is irrelevant. Everyone knows that.
Don Davis
#71. Competition is very good ... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.
Christine Lahti
#72. I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.
Tom Cotton
#73. No, Princes Charming," Duncan cheerfully corrected. "'Prince' is the noun; that's what gets pluralized. 'Charming' is an adjective; you can't add an S to it like that.
Christopher Healy
#74. There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.
Shelley Long
#75. Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
Peter Mullan
#76. That's what marriage is, isn't it? Taking the rough with the smooth. At least, that's what it should be.
Laura Barnett
#77. Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.
Peter Kreeft
#78. A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Dakota Johnson
#79. If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
Clara Hughes
#80. Because failure isn't what shapes us, it's what we do after we fail.
J.S. Cooper
#81. Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.
Michael Ende
#82. You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
Mick Jagger
#83. I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing ... That's what I want little niggaz to see.
Tupac Shakur
#84. I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that's what I do, that I'm a scream queen. I'd like to stay away from that.
A. J. Cook
#85. That's what life is, a series of fuck-ups and what you make of 'em.
Stevie J. Cole
#86. You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.
Joel Osteen
#87. Have fun, because that's what life is all about.
Ryan Lochte
#88. This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
Elizabeth Gilbert
#89. I want to hide from it, that's what I want to do. I want to just close my eyes and let it pass by. Let it take the next man.
Raymond Carver
#90. To know your soul is your own, that's what counts.
Marty Rubin
#91. We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.
Tony Abbott
#92. It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
Tess Gerritsen
#93. Insignificant - that's what all those years I'd given them would be,
Sarah J. Maas
#94. There are a lot of guys out there with skills who have not contributed to the evolution of the instrument. It's about more than that ... it's an emotive language, an aesthetic. Skill is an aspect, but it's what you do with that skill, or say with that skill, that matters.
Vinnie Colaiuta
#95. Where are we going?" asked Victor. "If I'm allowed to ask."
I squirmed around in my seat so that I could look him in the eye. "That's what you're going to tell us. As hard as it is to believe, we didn't do all that just because we missed your pleasant company."
"That is hard to believe.
Richelle Mead
#96. One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#97. Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
Katharine Hepburn
#98. But my sadness is comforting Because it's right and natural And because it's what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
Fernando Pessoa
#99. I have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.
Terry O'Quinn
#100. Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe.
Ruby Rose
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