Something Quotes

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Always desire to learn something useful.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.