Some Quotes

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Some people around you don't mean you good.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.

So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.