To Be Something Quotes

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Inside everybody's hiding something.

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

If you want something, give it

If the results don't scream: "Do this again!" Try something new.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

You look back and you always think you can probably do something better.

I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.

There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

If I feel like something's gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

Every day is a school day. I learn something new every day, and I never know what's going to happen next.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards!

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness

When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.