Top 1200 Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

Money is not something you just print. It must be backed by something, either good economy or gold.

We're always trying to do something better than the last record; to do something different and evolve as a band.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

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

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.

I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life

I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.

There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.

In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other."

But when it comes to my career, my job, something that I love so much and something that I'm passionate about, I can't let anything get in the way of that.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

You just kind of deal with it. Manage it. Do what you can do, but when it hit my hamstring, it was something I couldn't control and something I couldn't play through.

Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.

There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen—because you love each other.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

Very rarely in the life of an actor and a performer do you do something you truly believe in, do you do something you are absolutely proud of.

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I didn't notice the first time. The art of making records is something like this: you want to provide a multiplicity of experience in a single object, which is to say you want layers so that people can revisit and have something revealed to them that wasn't apparent the first time. We often will listen to the same music over and over again, and that tells you something, too.

When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here. In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.

The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

It's why I started music, to have my own stuff happening - something that I can say is mine, something that I have ownership of.

Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.