To Be Something Quotes

If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

I'm always looking for something new and interesting to say. And it can't be something I'm directly experiencing.

If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

Every five years, I decide to learn something new.

Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

I did buy a new piece of furniture so it's like, "Oh, that's something new." But generally my goals are made in the fall.

It's important to be alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do.

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

I think that when something ends there's something new starting.

The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.

When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.

Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.

There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane.

Charisma's good every night. Something special is always about to happen. You've got to believe it.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know they have something beautiful within them that I do not have.

If you hate something, you hate it, and if you like something or somebody, you like it, but tell the truth. And most celebrities have that thin veneer that they will not break for you.

If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.

I've always loved those movies where somebody thinks they want something, and then they realize that the thing they really want is right in front of them.

I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

My mantra is, 'This or something better.'

I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.