Quotes about something
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“People think of education as something they can finish.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

People, Education, Thinking

“I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said.
"And what is that?"
"They are not true.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Understanding

“Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind me of that spark of decency inside me. I'm trying to do something decent now, Captain.”

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

Source: The Arctic Incident

“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Variant: I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

Hate, School

“Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

“If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

Memory

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Kiss

“With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Stupidity

“People pay more attention when they think you’re up to something.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

People, Thinking

“Know something? I'd lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we've become this city's principle means of employment. Tal Verrar's entire economy is now based on.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

People

“Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

Pleasure, Sleep

“I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Life, Books, Soul

“When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.”

Natasha Friend (1972) American writer

Source: Perfect

“Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this.

At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?”

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

Source: The Time Paradox

Hope, Communication, Kiss, Chance

“Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

People

“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

People, Stupidity, Nature

“How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Perfection

“You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

Painting

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: It's much easier... to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
Source: The Book Thief

“Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Angels Fall

Hell, Drink

“I'm not really qualified to install a security system," said Dimitri.
"Really? There's something you can't do?" Adrian's voice was so soft that I could barely hear him, and he was sitting right next to me.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.”

Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination

Source: The Stars My Destination

Faith

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. … We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it.”

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist

Wilderness Letter http://wilderness.org/bios/former-council-members/wallace-stegner (1960) <br class="br">Source: The Sound of Mountain Water

People, Health, Books, World

“For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

World

“You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual, I suppose.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Business

“One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

Truth

“Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

“If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“You don't die. You just… get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Hurt, Cry

“I'm sorry."

"Be sorry you lied," he said, pressing a kiss to my forehead. "Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Love, Kiss, Parting

“Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back… Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Secret

“Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something — anything — to begin.”

Megan Abbott book Dare Me

Source: Dare Me

Age, Girl, Time, Waiting

“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist

Love

“There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“there was something about
that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had no feeling for the
things so many others
needed.
it let me alone.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Feeling

“Why must every relationship I have be so damned impossible? (Ravyn)
Hey now, defeatist talk from a catman like you? I’m the one who should be freaking out here. I mean, damn, you could give me fleas or something. (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

“And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

“Bright star,” Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Star, Forgetting

“I have found a way to beat myself
I win by losing, something like that
I'm told that I'm stupid
So ok, I'll be stupid
If I can't register the pain
Then it's not there
I'm not so stupid after all
I'll show them”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Pain, Stupidity, Way

“We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Appearance

“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.”

Peter Singer (1946) Australian philosopher

“But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Life

“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Source: Blood and Grits

World

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy… fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 21 (p. 171)
Source: VALIS
Context: "Fear,” Jason said, “can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.”'

Hate, Fear, Jealousy

“Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

“[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Podcast Series 2 Episode 2
On Nature

Water

“The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Life, Childhood

“In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

Feeling

“Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything.
Ever.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Girl, Idea

“Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close."
"Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.”

Janet Evanovich High Five

Source: High Five

Grandma, Personality

“Scraps of Magic:
These are little scraps of magic & when you paste them together you get a memory of something fine & strong, she said. Sometimes it takes till you're 40 to see it though.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Strong, Memory, Past

“Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once”

Morris Gleitzman book Once

Source: Once

Life

“The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

Way, Idea, Thinking

“Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like… you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Thinking

“It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.”

Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer

“God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.”

Julian of Norwich book Revelations of Divine Love

Source: Revelations of Divine Love

God

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Life

“See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Understanding

“The corner of his mouth quirked up suddenly.
“What?” Clary demanded. “Is something funny?”
“ ‘Flying death turtle’?” he said. “Only you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Death, Flying

“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Life

“Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Variant: I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
Source: Every Day

“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”

Marian Wright Edelman (1939) American children's rights activist

Life, Time, Business

“I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Cobo Center speech (1963)

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Thinking, Heart Touching, Romantic, Valentine's Day

“You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

Men, World

“It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Friendship, Feeling

“Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.'

'I got it covered.'

'The DiMarcos might be in town.'

'Actually, they're in jail.'

'All seven of them?'

Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Marriage is about compromise, it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Jane Lewis, Chapter 8, p. 130
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)

Marriage, Personality

“I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Feeling

“But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Stupidity, Sadness, Feeling, Dead

“Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.”

Ava Gardner (1922–1990) American actress

Source: Ava: My Story

Hell

“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love

“Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.”

Jeff Lindsay book Dexter Is Delicious

Source: Dexter Is Delicious

Money

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Love, Sense, Universe