Top 100 What Any Quotes
#1. It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me about songs. The emotions I feel are what any person can relate to. Sometimes I'm just a narrator.
Ella Henderson
#2. Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.
Gail Carriger
#3. I think what any student adds is the ideas they bring.
Gordon Gee
#4. So I do what any self-respecting competitor would. I shove him into the grass and take off.
Kristen Callihan
#5. Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.
Bob Dylan
#6. Sabine was now sixteen and old enough to begin doing what any girl like her would."
Brazen Mortal crossed her arms over her chest and knowingly said, "Prostitution."
"Wrong. Commercial fishing."
"Really?"
"Noooo," Sabine said. "Fortune-telling.
Kresley Cole
#7. Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.
Chuck Schumer
#8. What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
Terry Pratchett
#9. Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
Lamar Alexander
#10. Home. Wow. I'm already calling it home.
Well, isn't that what any place is? Any place that you share with
someone you love, I mean?
Meg Cabot
#11. Smalls, my parents' house is pretty big. The odds are more in favor of a burglar sneaking around than your boy-boy. I can't let you take that risk alone. If you're gonna get murdered, then I'm gonna get murdered with you." She shrugged. "It's what any good friend would do.
Cole Gibsen
#12. Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic - you aren't going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).
Phillip C. McGraw
#13. My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!
Eudora Welty
#14. Umm. Well ... I don't know what the first sign is. You see ... I'm ... a little blind. My eyesight is really bad. For example, I have no idea what any of you look like.
Kenya Wright
#15. He was certain she had an infirmity, some rare, peculiar mental disorder from birth, that made her do the opposite of what any authority figure told her.
Christine Feehan
#16. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!
Freddie Mercury
#17. I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head
Liam Gallagher
#18. Surviving is what any animal would do. It's making something of yourself that earns the badge. Nobody can choose how they were born and raised, but everyone can choose how they're going to live.
Nadia Lee
#19. It doesn't matter what any of my teammates have said about me.
Terrell Owens
#20. My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
Tasha Smith
#21. That's what any decent mind ought to do for its owner when she lets it off the leash - just go bounding away into the long grass and bring back a really profound thought, laying it at her feet all furry and palpitating. C'mon now. Hey los'!
Jan Struther
#22. I think that it's just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that's completely written by one person, regardless of what any showrunner will tell you.
Judy Greer
#23. Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
#24. He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by being eaten alive. I screamed.
Donald G. Firesmith
#25. We deserved our chance at life. At love. At figuring out what any of this meant. It was far from a romance. But it was still a love story. And it was ours. I was going to stop at nothing until we had our happy ending.
T.M. Frazier
#26. Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.
John Clute
#27. Well I didn't what any added perks," I tell her.
Lara West
#28. I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.
Bob Feller
#29. It's ridiculous if you ask me. I don't know what any of us are doing here. But we're a tribe, a network, cruising the galaxy. We have offices in every loka, in every part of existence. I suppose you make that out to be a unique situation. We're Unique! No, I don't think so. We're enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#30. I don't know what any of this means, but I know that when I thought you were gone, I couldn't breathe. It felt like half of me was missing." I kept babbling, my edit button not only broken, but completely obliterated. "I'm seventeen. Who feels like this at seventeen?
Myra McEntire
#31. What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
Hanya Yanagihara
#32. And now we're learning how to fall in love together. I don't care what any one else says. I
love you. I'll always love you, no matter what happens with us in the future. I love you now and
forever. - Kyle
Jasinda Wilder
#33. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
Duke Of Wellington
#34. The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life ... / All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Kevin Hearne
#35. I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
Miep Gies
#36. People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
Pearl S. Buck
#37. Where is Alia?' she asked.
'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,' Paul said. 'She's killing enemy wounded ...
Frank Herbert
#38. A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
Francis Ford Coppola
#39. Intelligence once meant more than what any artificial intelligence does. It used to include sensibility, sensitivity, awareness, discernment, reason, acumen, and wit.
Sherry Turkle
#40. I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass.
Beth Kendrick
#41. I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game.
Miguel Tejada
#42. That's not necessary. I'm doing what any good friend would do, out of loyalty and Lunar patriotism and--"
"I'll buy you a new pair of shoes."
"Sold.
Marissa Meyer
#43. I did what any good rat would do. I bit down on the guard's hand until I tasted blood.
Maria V. Snyder
#44. Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in On the Ropes, and I'd probably be in sympathy with a different one on any given day, depending on what's going on in the world.
James Vance
#45. How could someone who has never lost a parent, a lover, or a best friend have the faintest clue about what any of this means?
Lena Dunham
#46. To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.
R. Kelly
#47. I was desperate, baby. I wasn't lying when I said I couldn't live if you died. I needed to know you were alive. I needed to see you, and now that you're safe. I can't regret it. It sucks, and I know it's not what any of us wanted, but seeing you here, I know it was worth it.
J.M. Darhower
#48. Forget about intentions. What any institution, or its agents, "intend" for you is secondary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#49. If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But if his own conceptions are limited and narrow in their human meaning it seems likely that time will erase his work.
Ben Shahn
#50. People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
Jeb Bush
#51. The pride Kaspar had seen in his father's eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Never be afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost.
Raymond E. Feist
#52. What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
Benjamin Bloom
#53. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass
#55. But I have one more thing to tell you, Samael. Something that is more important than what any of us want. Listen to me. The last thing Gabriel told me is that during the Tribulation, you will have a mission." ... "She wants you to kill someone. To kill the Antichrist that has risen in your stead.
Phillip W. Simpson
#56. I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
Larry Kramer
#57. I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.
Mark Leibovich
#58. The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.
John Donne
#59. It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.
Glen Duncan
#60. There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.
Will Rogers
#61. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.
James Jones
#62. Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting!
Rick Yancey
#63. Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.
Satya Nadella
#64. Do not listen to what any society tells you about the body - the body is the metaphor for all experience. A woman's body more than any other. Like language, its beautiful but weaker sister. Look at this poem. This painting. Look at these photographs. The body doesn't lie.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#65. What she wants most - what she truly yearns for - is what any of us want: to be seen.
Christina Baker Kline
#66. I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen
#67. I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
Sherman Alexie
#68. So I did what any sane person would do. I jammed the pitchfork in the general direction of his foot and ran like hell for the house ...
Beth Fantaskey
#69. Anyway, at a certain point in my early twenties, my mother started to become worried about my obviously ever-increasing drug ingestion. So she ended up doing what any concerned parent would do. She called Cary Grant.
Carrie Fisher
#70. I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.
Liam Gallagher
#71. What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
John Berger
#72. I did what any other Fae would have done. Only, I fucked up by thinking I would be done with you by the time he'd been fully changed over to my world. I fucked up by thinking that a short amount of time with you would be enough.
Amelia Hutchins
#73. No matter what any bleeding-heart tells you, 3% of the people in the world are scum. The trouble is, if you spent 80% of your time with that 3%, you start thinking that 80% of the world is scum.
Rory Miller
#74. Education, travel, culture - this is what any pennies pinched should be used for, never flashy cars, loud logos, or personal maintenance.
Jessica Knoll
#75. Get out, Get out, get out, get out! I do what any sane male would do in this situation; I run down the hall and lock myself in her bedroom.
Colleen Hoover
#76. I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has - and how grateful we are for what we have - no one has it all.
Sheryl Sandberg
#77. I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.
Roxane Gay
#78. She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.
E.L. Doctorow
#79. I don't know what any of this means. All I know is I feel crazy, like I want to cry and laugh and scream at the same time.
Amy Reed
#80. While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but the percentages remain constant
Arthur Conan Doyle
#81. By the time he reaches the farm, he is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been the day before. He may not be certain what any of it means, but for now he does not think that it much matters.
Erin Morgenstern
#82. It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.
Nevil Shute
#83. Finally, her emotions must be tempered, must brew like a storm too high in the atmosphere to be felt on earth. She must never cry until the moment her grief surpasses what any mortal being can bear. Then she will weep - and open up the fissure to our world.
Anonymous
#84. The things you have done for me - to help me, support me, surprise me, and make me happy - go above and beyond what any person deserves. You are all I need. I love you and I like you.
Amy Poehler
#86. You are everything that's beautiful and pure in this world, and you deserve so much better than this life, than what any of us have to offer. Than what I have to offer.
Rachel Van Dyken
#87. Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years' time.
Idries Shah
#88. Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses - the whole world over his fence.
John Steinbeck
#89. The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.
John Updike
#90. When he thanked Maude, she knew the camera would be on her, screening each twitch her face twisted into, so she did what any other dignified artist would do and stuck out her tongue.
Anna Adams
#91. When the emergency brappers went of they did what any dedicated, well-trained and quick-minded Service personnel would do; they paniced.
From the short story What Makes Us Human.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#92. The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller
#93. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.
Kristen Stewart
#94. We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral right to the lands of Hawai'i now and forever, no matter what any court says.
Lilikala K. Kame'eleihiwa
#95. As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery ... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Ryan Holmes
#96. Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.
Ted Cruz
#97. The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
Ban Ki-moon
#98. You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew ... God doesn't make the world this way. We do.
Alan Moore
#99. I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do
make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.
Stephen King
#100. I did what any loving, loyal daughter would have done who had been raised on a diet of Hercules movies.
Jeffrey Eugenides
