Somebody Quotes

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.

You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

When every one is somebody, Then no one's anybody!

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.