Top 46 You Don Get Something For Nothing Quotes
#1. Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.
Katherine Pancol
#2. I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way.
Mira Grant
#3. Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.
Rachel Caine
#4. I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
Karl Lagerfeld
#5. I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
Gladys Knight
#6. The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.
Paul Simonon
#7. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.
Sherry Turkle
#8. I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. It's not magic. This, this is simple biology.
C.M. Stunich
#9. For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
Alexei Sayle
#10. I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.
Kendra Wilkinson
#11. I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very confident in being single until I find someone who I'm extremely crazy about and who I want to devote my time and love to. Until then, I will just be on my own and I am totally fine with that,
Nina Dobrev
#12. What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
Jodi Picoult
#13. There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
Eric Thomas
#14. You don't have to show people how successful you are.
Martin Yan
#16. Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. You don't seem to need me, and if you don't need me, it is much more gratifying that you want me.
Elisa Marie Hopkins
#18. Don't readjust your contacts. No, that is not the slow hyena from The Lion King. That is my four-pound best friend.
Mamrie Hart
#19. Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -
Charles Stross
#20. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte.
Haruki Murakami
#21. Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.
Dia Reeves
#22. Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.
Vin Diesel
#23. The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.
Dean Koontz
#24. I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#25. I don't want to be my limitations. I don't want to be my pain. I don't want to be my embarrassment.
Kim Holden
#26. In truth I don't like Cornish pasties.
Joe Cornish
#27. If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
Isaac Slade
#28. What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.
Paul Feig
#29. I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.
Romesh Wadhwani
#30. Firestar: Okay, Jayfeather, what does mallow look like?
Jayfeather: I don't know, do I? I've never seen it.
Erin Hunter
#31. When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.
Mary Harron
#32. You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.
Karen Marie Moning
#33. No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I will forget that. I want someone to care for me like my dad cared for my mom. And you aren't him.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#34. Let me out," Harry said again.
"No," Dumbledore repeated.
"If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"
"By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.
J.K. Rowling
#35. Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
Alan Furst
#36. If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
Michael Schenker
#37. It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.
John Katzenbach
#38. Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#39. 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
#40. Why do they make you work so hard for unemployment?" "I don't know, babe. It's a shame you can't get something for absolutely nothing.
Adam Mayle
#41. Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free
Neil Peart
#42. There's nothing wrong with the fashion industry. What's wrong is changing yourself for something you don't really care about just to get somewhere faster.
Anne Hathaway
#43. You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be
Bradley J. Birzer
#44. Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.
Jennifer Beals
#45. I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy -
August Wilson
#46. You won't get fired if you do something, you will if you don't do anything. Do something if it is wrong, for you can correct that, but there is no way to correct nothing.
David McCullough
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