To Be Something Quotes

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.

I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head, but I can do something about the ones that stay there!.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

Every day you learn something new.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

If you want something, go get it.

Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.

Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

It's not tragic to die doing something you love.

I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or a belief in something better. It's something that drives us.

When you feel like something is really wrong, it's usually wrong

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

Let's do something beautiful for God.

A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.

We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

When you don't know what to do, do something. I know you don't know what to do and I know you can't do everything right now, but you can do something.

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

I hope that something better comes along.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.

Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves.

Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Everybody in America is angry about something.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.