Top 100 To Be Something Quotes
#1. I'm going to rule, Val, I'm going to have control of something. But I want it to be something worth ruling.
Orson Scott Card
#2. I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
Jeff Buckley
#3. [I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me ... [as] inspiration.
ASAP Rocky
#4. Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
Maggie Grace
#5. The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.
Billy Corgan
#6. When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
Abraham Maslow
#7. The whole thing that drew me to doing an animated film is that you're freed from the physical limitations of your physical body. All of a sudden, you get to be something that has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a 6'4, lumbering dude, and that is really exciting.
Jason Segel
#8. Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.
Edmond De Goncourt
#9. I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.
Leelee Sobieski
#10. One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then two, I have to have a formal idea. Something has to be being worked out in poetry.
Edward Hirsch
#11. To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.
Sandra Bullock
#12. As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.
Stephanie Sigman
#13. To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.
J.M. Coetzee
#14. Civilization seems to be something we choose when it fits our purpose.
Dennis Lehane
#15. WANTING to be anything is the whole point of feminism. HAVING TO BE SOMETHING is what feminists fight against, or at least the ones I know.
Alida Nugent
#16. When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.
Billy Bob Thornton
#17. My bathroom is filled with hair and makeup stuff and I play with it all the time. What the real lesson is, is that you can own your own sense of beauty. It doesn't have to be something you get from somewhere else.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#18. And yet I cannot be myself. You teach me all these things and then you put me here to pretend to be something I am not, while she is center stage, doing exactly what she does.
Erin Morgenstern
#19. Whatever inspires you is an aspect of yourself. Any desire of the heart exists to support you in discovering and manifesting it. If you have an aspiration to be something, it is because you have the potential to manifest the quality you are seeing and the behavior that this quality will bring forth.
Debbie Ford
#20. We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove. (p. 22)
Brian McLaren
#21. Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.
Michel Martin
#22. Still, I knew from that first moment that my tour on the Enterprise was going to be something special." He shrugged. "The name carries that level of expectation, you know?
Dayton Ward
#23. Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.
John Maus
#24. A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.
Oscar Wilde
#25. People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
Omar Sy
#26. I've thought it from time to time myself. Stupidly simple. There has to be something to all this. There has to be! So many missing pieces. The more you consider it, the more atheists begin to sound like religious fanatics. But I think it's a delusion. It is all process and nothing more.
Anne Rice
#27. If I lend my support to a specific cause, it has to be something that I look over and that I have a complete understanding of and it's not just some extracurricular bullshit.
Immortal Technique
#28. There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
Haruki Murakami
#29. Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.
Steven Soderbergh
#30. 'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
Alber Elbaz
#31. There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if 'productivity' and/or 'usefulness' are the measures of human value, and - particularly for artists - this is deeply problematic. We shouldn't given in.
Tasha Golden
#32. When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.
Chet Faker
#33. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.
Immortal Technique
#34. 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
#35. There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do.
Julianne Moore
#36. The new people were something else before they were white - Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish - and if all our national hopes have any fulfillment, then they will have to be something else again. Perhaps
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#37. The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year.
Kyle Schmid
#38. I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.
Cherie Lunghi
#40. There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging.
Brooke Waggoner
#41. 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
#42. "I knew I was lucky. Blessed, even. But it was a lot of pressure ... trying not to waste what you've been given. I wanted to accomplish something. To love something. To be something. But I didn't know how. I didn't know what."
"Finding it
Cora Carmack
#43. Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.
Leigh Bardugo
#44. I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
David Friedman
#45. I guess it's a bit like not claiming your brother at school. This kind of disowning of the thing that you're most like. You want to be something cool, like Michael Jackson say, with a boom box over your shoulder and wearing leather. But you know deep down you're just a hayseed.
Ketch Secor
#46. I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.
Cheryl James
#47. There has got to be a lot of unreleased video out there, live footage and whatnot. There's always going to be something extra for the Pantera fan.
Phil Anselmo
#48. We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
Jude Law
#49. Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.
Steve Young
#50. After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#51. We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books
Katarina Bivald
#52. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more? LENORE:
David Foster Wallace
#53. Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.
Lindsay Price
#54. Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.
Robyn
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men an women upon the earth
Anthony Trollope
#58. Granted, physical attraction is what gets you in the door. But there has to be something beyond that to want to keep you there.
Jaci Burton
#59. If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#60. Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.
Janeane Garofalo
#61. I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
George Clooney
#62. I think that evening was the beginning of the end of us. Not because we were going to have sex, but because I think we both realized that we were forcing ourselves to be something that neither of us wanted. - Diane
Elizabeth Eulberg
#63. I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
Gottfried Leibniz
#64. But that's what I love about punk music. It has a sense of humor about itself, doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's kickass funk with a heavy-metal edge, but with a conscience. Good
Rachel Cohn
#65. When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
Bill Viola
#66. For me to play gay, it has to be something special because it might actually be more of a risk. So I'm waiting for that role - I want it to be something that moves things forward.
Russell Tovey
#67. Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Charles Baudelaire
#68. No one should be forced to be something they aren't.
Sara Raasch
#69. Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#70. I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Javan
#72. In a few short weeks, mock-marital status had ceased to be something to aspire to, and had become a cause for scorn. At seventeen, we were becoming as embittered and as unromantic as our parents.
Nick Hornby
#73. I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.
Nicholas Stoller
#74. I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.
Alexander Ludwig
#75. People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
John Steinbeck
#76. I am Not The Best, But I Have The Potential To Be Something Great.
Anderson Silva
#77. After we shot the first 'Twilight,' we organized our own wrap party. We really didn't know what this was going to be. Something like that can come at you unexpectedly, and you just have to try your best to deal with it.
Anna Kendrick
#78. To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#79. 'Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy.
Aeriel Miranda
#80. There's got to be something greater than us.
Ajay Naidu
#81. Not every breakfast needs to be something worthy of posting to a food blog. Sometimes food is simply fuel, something we eat to live. But with TV ads and billboards and in-store displays saying otherwise - in colorful and provocative ways - that can be a hard case to make.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#82. Love has to be more than something we feel. It has to be something we do. We have to demonstrate it concretely in our marriage, our family, among our friends and acquaintances, and, yes, even among our enemies.
Gary Chapman
#83. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books, at least to begin with.
Katarina Bivald
#84. So considering how the current official religion of China seems to be something like "Stand still while we bulldoze your house to build this dam" it's hard to put a finger on the relationship between ancient Chinese tales and any specific religion.
Cory O'Brien
#85. 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
#86. I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.
Kristen Stewart
#87. I think we have to recognize as an industry that users have a lot more choices and can click away to a lot more media. As a result, the advertising we create really needs to be something users want to see.
Susan Wojcicki
#88. I did wonder what happened when we died, though, and I'd wondered about it for most of my life. Thinking that nothing happened, that there was absolutely nothing following all of this pain, seemed just as silly as magic. No, there had to be something.
David Joy
#89. 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
#90. There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.
J.W. Lord
#91. I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
Carroll O'Connor
#92. I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.
Dhani Harrison
#93. I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
Tallulah Bankhead
#94. Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I think that's always going to be something I like.
Oren Peli
#95. What we call birth
Is but a beginning to be something else
Than what we were before; and when we cease
To be that something, then we call it death.
Ovid
#96. Don't dream to be something but rather dream to do something great.
Narendra Modi
#97. We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.
Leo Ornstein
#98. Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.
Bill Cosby
#99. I used to think there was something up with any female that liked me, I mean, if she didni get bored with my company, there had to be something up with her. Otherwise how come she wasni with somebody else? If she was normal she would be. Ergo she had to have a personality problem.
James Kelman
#100. I was starting to think you were one kind of person until a situation arose that required you to be something else.
Laura McHugh
