Something Quotes

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.