Quotes about something
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“Hey, look—youris saying something."
Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Girl

“He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: How to Save a Life

Way

“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

Evil

“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Understanding, Reading

“I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

Thinking

“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Thinking, Change, Reading

“We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person… so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition, Vol. 3

Feeling, Personality, Selfishness

“How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

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

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

God

“How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Love, People, Family, Study

“It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found."
"The truth?" Sazed said.
"No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

Truth, Faith, Religion, Search

“I saw something in his pretty green eyes that I had never seen before: Anger. They were like emerald fire”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Anger

“I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Personality

“It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”

Sam Levenson (1911–1980) American journalist

Stupidity, Thinking

“I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Sense

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”

Jonathan Maberry (1958) writer

Source: Patient Zero

World

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 1, ch. 9
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Children

“Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

“There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Hate, Rage

“It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Love

“Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Hope

“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy

Reading

“For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

Women

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Feeling, Memory

“Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.”

Lori Foster (1958) American writer

Source: Trace of Fever

Tree

“Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.”

Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City

Source: Bright Lights, Big City

Change

“Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.”

Ryan North (1980) Canadian webcomic writer and programmer

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Feeling, Cry

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Love, Funny

“Jace hated it when other people were worried on his behalf. It made him feel like maybe there really was something to worry about.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Hate, People, Feeling

“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Time, Future, Parting

“I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Life, Beauty, Sense

“God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

God

“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Courage, Time, Courageous

“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Love, Marriage, Way, Girl

“…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.”

Clive Barker book Galilee

Source: Galilee

World

“Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Art

“Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

Life, Change, Time, Personality

“Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.”

Richard Dawkins book The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene

“By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.”

Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer

Happiness, Search, Suffering, Water

“Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.”

Eric Sevareid (1912–1992) American journalist

Christmas, Christmas

“Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed”

Chuck Klosterman Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

Truth, Disappointment, Learning, Time

“But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, Heart, Forgetting

“Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops.

OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Flying

“There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.”

Kristin Armstrong (1973) American road bicycle racer

Soul

“well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Thinking

“[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.”

Elizabeth Goudge book Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

Love, Life, God, Hate

“My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Forgetting

“Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned.
'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.”

Malorie Blackman book Boys Don't Cry

Source: Boys Don't Cry

Men, Boy, Tear, Cry

“If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Love, For Him, For Boyfriend

“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”

Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist

Men, World

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Change, Motivational, Happy, Attitude

“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.
I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: Underdog

Waiting, Personality

“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more”

Bob Dylan book Writings and Drawings

Source: Writings and Drawings

Time

“If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

Drawing

“The Three Oddest Words

When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

Silence, Past, Future

“Time was something that moved in fits and starts for Magnus, dissipating like mist or dragging like chains, but when Alec was here, Magnus’s time seemed to fall into an easy rhythm with Alec’s, like two heartbeats falling into sync.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Time

“My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”

Sigmund Freud book Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

Love

“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“I buried a nickel under the porch when I was 8, she said, but one day my grandma died & they sold the house & I never got to go back for it.
A nickel used to mean something, I said.
She nodded. It still does, she said & then she started to cry.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Grandma, Housing, Cry

“They say a story loses something with each telling.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”

Frank O'Hara book Meditations in an Emergency (book)

Source: Meditations in an Emergency

Change, Time

“(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect… you know… like being people.”

Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) author, activist, professor

Source: Raymond's Run

People, Flowers, Business

“What was your name again?"
"Still Eve."
"No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

“You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.”

Richard Dawkins book The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene

“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

World, Understanding

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Time

“What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Age, Personality

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
Source: City of Ashes

“A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

Life, Time

“Everyone,” she continues, looking around at all of us, “has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.”

Meg Wolitzer (1959) American writer

Source: Belzhar

Way

“Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true… it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.”

Diane Duane book High Wizardry

Source: High Wizardry

Time

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”

Homér Iliad

Source: Iliad

Fools, Learning

“Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Hunger, Kiss

“I love the relationship that anyone has with music… because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out…. It's the best part of us probably…”

Nick Hornby book Songbook

Source: Songbook

Love, Music, Parting

“And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful — how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

"Robert Schumann"
Dream Work (1986)
Source: Blue Pastures

Understanding

“Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!

live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”

Jerry Garcia (1942–1995) American musician and member of the Grateful Dead

Life, Hope, Future

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Contributions of Jane Wagner, As Edith Ann

Home, Thinking, Teachers, Teachers' Day

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

Source: Austenland

Truth, Universe

“In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened earlier, and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Feeling, Goodbye

“I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: 13 Gifts

Learning, Chance, Waiting

“music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

People, Music

“Listen to me, Jez. There's no reason for you to die-"
Wood… poison."
No it isn't! Not to humans. And you're half human. You're vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you're human enough not to be poisoned by wood.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Happiness, Question

“Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something”

James Redfield (1950) American author, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer

Source: The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights

Life, Way, Knowledge, Sense

“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator.”

Richard Louv (1949) American journalist

World, Time, Personality

“Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Way

“I was thanking him for… well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

World

“It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

Attributed

People, Strong

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Universe, Funny

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that (p. 37,).”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Books, Home, Reading

“Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Thinking

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