Quotes about something
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“Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.”

T.S. Eliot The Cocktail Party

Source: The Cocktail Party

“I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Universe

“Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: The Arkadians

“We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

Source: Six Thinking Hats Revised Edition

Way, Problem

“And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more…”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.”

Neal Stephenson book Cryptonomicon

Source: Cryptonomicon

Men, Way, Time

“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Love, Hate, Personality

“You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

Thinking, Effort

“Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

People, Passion

“Can you say something about nothing?”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Thinking

“Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.”

Mervyn Peake book Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

Cats

“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference

“The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.”

Idries Shah book The Sufis

Source: The Sufis

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Silence

“I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Feeling

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208

Love

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Reality

“You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

World, Sense, Waiting

“It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Stupidity, Evil

“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Sadness, Cry

“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Burnt Offerings

Source: Burnt Offerings

People, Smile

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving

Love, Faith, Feeling, Nature

“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

Variant: Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Lie, World, Music, Change

“i suppose i have a really loose interpretation of "work", because i think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. the machinery is always going. even when you sleep”

Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Variant: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Context: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Thinking, Sleep

“And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.”

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist

“Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Money, Stupidity, Smile

“No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Happiness

“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Thinking, Personality

“Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Beauty, Beauty

“This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning.
Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?”
“I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.”
It didn’t.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Thinking, Reading

“Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off…”

Jenna Blum book Het familieportret

Source: Those Who Save Us

Feeling, Parent

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.”

Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

“It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.”

Tom Clancy book The Hunt for Red October

Source: The Hunt for Red October

Truth, Lie

“Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Night

“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

World

“The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

“Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?"
"Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain."
"Done that once today," Jason said.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Mountain

“You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.”

Laurie R. King book The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Fools, Help, Housing

“Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.”

Ted Hughes Birthday Letters

Source: Birthday Letters

Life, Effort, Water, Dance

“A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.”

Susanna Clarke (1959) British author

“I love her because she has become something more to me. She become my life.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Love, Life

“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Seven.

Way, Sense

“Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.

Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Hunger, Feeling, Game, Flowers

“Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: White Night

“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.
IX, 5
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX

“An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something.
lini is quoted by Nynaeve.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Quotes

“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Life, God

“But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

Sadness, Feeling

“She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Hope, Evil

“Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

“Home, Ms. Lane?” His deep voice was gently amused.

“I have to call it something,” I said morosely. “They say home is where the heart is. I think mine’s satin-lined
and six feet under.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Home, Thinking, Heart

“You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Christmas Wedding

Thinking, Reading

“When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic,” I said. “When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Stupidity

“There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her.. the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as if nothing - not even time, not distance, not even death- could ever keep them apart.”

Amanda Stevens (1977)

Source: The Restorer

Death, Way, Time

“I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Life

“Kevin slapped a box of hot dogs down on the rock. “What the hell was that?”
“A kiss. It’s something guys like me do with girls we like. But don’t worry, someday you’ll find one drunk enough to let you try it.”

Shannon Stacey (1972) american writer

Source: Exclusively Yours

Dogs, Guy, Girl, Hell

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

T.S. Eliot book The Sacred Wood

Source: "Philip Massinger", a biographical essay in The Sacred Wood (1920)

“We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.”

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

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

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: Time Cat

“Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'

'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Coffee

“Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?”

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

Love, Truth, World, Star

“Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.”

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer

Source: Power & Light

Change, Hurt

“I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Love, Feeling

“They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, "There's something we need to tell you," and from the look on Andrew's face, I think he expected Derek to say he'd gotten me pregnant.”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

Thinking

“Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?”

Jamaica Kincaid Lucy

Source: Lucy

“When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself”

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

“But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Fate, Chance

“I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Feeling, Parting

“A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.”

Ana Castillo (1953) novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer

Source: Peel My Love Like an Onion

Lovers

“Calvin: As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
p25”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Fate

“… all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.”

Kingsley Amis book Lucky Jim

Source: Lucky Jim

Life, Sex, Rage

“People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”

Stephen R. Covey book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

People, Feeling

“The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

Imagination

“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Way, Perfection, Relationship

“… If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“If you can't do something smart, do something right.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Serenity

“You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

Past, Future, Personality

“We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Life, Way, Light, Time

“Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.”

Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer

Source: The Little Shop of Happy Ever After

Life

“Sage?" Adrian lightly touched my arm, and I jumped at the feel of his fingertips against my skin. "You okay?"
"I don't know," I said softly. "I just thought of something crazy."
"Welcome to my world.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

World, Feeling

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

Address to World's Salesmanship Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=w0IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA286&dq=%22want+to+make+enemies,+try+to+change+something%22, Detroit (10 July 1916) <br class="br">1910s

Change, Leadership

“He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“Peter. Peter Kavinsky.” Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Pleasure

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: Horns

Way

“There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist… If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.”

Alex Garland book The Beach

Source: The Beach

World, Question, Distant

“But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Forever Princess

History, Time

“If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?”

Stephen King (1947) American author

God

“I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 35, Nail Clippers, Butter Sauce, Iron Vase
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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