Something Quotes - page 4

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. (Susan Sontag)
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. View quote
Giorgio Armani
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. View quote
Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. View quote
Stephen Hawking
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. View quote
Norman Mailer
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. View quote
Jane Goodall
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. (Ambrose Bierce)
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. View quote
Pancho Villa
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. View quote
Steve Jobs
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. View quote
Joseph Addison
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. View quote
Lily Tomlin
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. View quote
Norman Rockwell
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. (Bertrand Russell)
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated. View quote
Howard Stern
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. View quote
José Saramago
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