Something Quotes

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

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

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Every time you overhear something hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else.

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

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.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.