Top 1200 Something Else Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going on in their life.

What I'm angry about, and I've gone on record saying this, is I think that financiers get away with murder. They realize they can get something for nothing and they won't settle for anything else. There's something called a Schedule F. If I work for a Schedule F contract that basically means I'm doing the movie for free because by the time I pay all my commissions and taxes there's barely anything left for me to live on. This whole notion that you do work that you love for very little money and then you go out and do something you hate to make money.

I don't think of music as being a competition - what I make is exactly what I want it to be for me, and it's not better or worse than anything else. I'm just trying to be the best at what I am, or that I possibly can be. And when I've done that, I feel incredibly confident and there's nothing anyone can see to dampen that, but I don't think that because it means something to me, it has to necessarily mean something to other people.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming - but also around the country - I continue to hear, 'How can Washington make us buy something we don't want to buy, a product? They can't tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else - how can they do that?'

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing to do with art. So I'm making it clear that this is an artistic choice. It's not everyone's artistic choice. Some people should choose only to make object form because that's what gives them pleasure. But there are people for whom aesthetic pleasure comes from doing something else, and why would you deny that choice? It's another autonomous choice.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

But when I'm done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it's like a suit of clothes, put on something else.

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

There's something about the comic book genre that I think is so cool and artsy and unique. It's not like anything else.

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.

I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land - the land where all the people are - is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway).

I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window.

Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them.

Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.

Editing rooms are kind of, by definition, a bubble of you and the editor and what you're thinking. It's a truth-telling thing to watch it through someone else's eyes, is to get another level of real with your material. Like, "Maybe that's not that funny. Maybe that's not as interesting. Maybe that's redundant to something else. Maybe we can cut down." I don't know. It's a brutal, honest process. You've got to be pretty - You can't be sentimental. You have to be. It's a cold process. You can't be nostalgic. You have to make those tough decisions.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I'm suggesting we call sex something else, and it should include everything from kissing to sitting close together.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force such as men or gods have never seen - a force worth reckoning with, if you were of a mind. And something was of that mind. And something else opposed it. He should have expected that. Battle in the heavens, battle on the earth.

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end. I never made enough money from comics to be able to take a break and do something else. Now I just can't stand comics. . . . I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

I've never been stuck in the Upside Down, and no one else I know has, so it was kind of something new to just create.

Final pairing on Sunday in a PGA Tour event? If you can't get up for that, you better find something else to do.

If the actor doesn't feel it's right, that's when you say, 'OK, let's find something else.' It's then that you get the natural moment.

You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't.

I can't just say I wanna take a Hall of Fame point guard and make him into something else.

So far, Senate Republicans are good at getting Facebook likes and town halls and not much else. Do something.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

Selfishly, it feels great for me to do something that might put a smile on someone else's face.

How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?" "You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.