Something Quotes

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.