To Be Something Quotes

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

There is always something new to learn. There is always something new that I am learning and I wanna share it with the world.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

Never want something without expecting it

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

I don't like to sleep. I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.

People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

Do something you love and people will love you for it.

Faith is knowing something that no-one else does.

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.

I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.

The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

I think I deserve something beautiful.