Quotes about something page 35
“It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.”
Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”
Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.”
Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist
Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.”
Patti Callahan Henry American writer
Source: Between The Tides
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 101 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA101 <br class="br">Context: We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to contend that we must first have achieved a contemporaneousness with the author or the original reader by means of a reconstruction of his historical horizon before we could begin to grasp the meaning of what is said. A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.
“Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?”
Regina Doman (1970) American writer
Source: The Shadow of the Bear
“I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it.”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”
Václav Havel book Disturbing the Peace
Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5
“Gone had come to mean something different, in a way that is hadn’t used to. Something permanent.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Source: Brave New World
“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Variant: The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
William James Is Life Worth Living?
"Is Life Worth Living?"
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
“Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.”
Jason Fried software entrepreneur
Source: Rework
“What about you?"
"Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
“Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.”
Céline Dion (1968) Canadian singer
“BE QUIET!!… What do you want…? I was in the middle of saying something nice…”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 01
“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
