To Be Something Quotes

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

My goal on every job is to learn something new, because I get bored so easily.

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

There are two very different types of hope in this world. One is hoping for something, and the other is hoping in Someone.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

You're in for something special!

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.

A man who does not know how to have a relationship of friendship with a woman - I'm not talking about misogynists, who are sick - well, he's a man who is missing something.

It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

An actor cannot say no, it’s against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it’s very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don’t know about, and if I haven’t done it, I’ll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.

I do have faith that something better is always coming for you.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.