All Quotes

Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.
‐‐ Marketa Irglova

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.
‐‐ Tibor Fischer

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'
‐‐ Robert Wilson

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.
‐‐ Roger Penrose

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.
‐‐ Cheryl Mendelson

Some years you have good years, some years you don't.
‐‐ Asdrubal Cabrera

Some you win some you lose.
‐‐ Yohan Blake

Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'
‐‐ Jacques Villeneuve

Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.
‐‐ Chris Jericho

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.
‐‐ Alberto Tomba

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
‐‐ Dean Koontz

Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it's also important to tell stories about women's triumphs, women being slackers, women being criminals, women being heroes.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.
‐‐ Scott Baio

Somebody asked me, 'Why do people like vampires so much?' This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, 'Because we just spent eight years being sucked dry by one.'
‐‐ Alan Ball

Somebody asked me - you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, 'I'm a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.'
‐‐ John Wooden

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
‐‐ Glenn Frey

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.
‐‐ Susannah McCorkle

Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
‐‐ Kate Hudson

Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.
‐‐ Philip Treacy

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

Somebody captures an incredible video, shares it online, and inspires millions of other people to go and do the same with their GoPros, and then it happens again and again - and what you've got is this incredible snowball of stoked customers capturing and creating rad content with their GoPros.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon

Somebody could send you an office document or a PDF file, and as soon as you open it, it's a booby trap and the hacker has complete control of your computer. Another major problem is password management. People use the same password on multiple sites, so when the hacker compromises one site, they have your password for everywhere else.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.
‐‐ Scotty McCreery

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.
‐‐ Gavin MacLeod

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
‐‐ Cyndi Lauper

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
‐‐ Ikue Mori

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.
‐‐ Clint Hill

Somebody had given me a copy of 'Hunky Dory,' which had yet to be a hit, although it was starting to percolate. I'd seen a couple of pictures of David, with his interesting hairdo and outfits, and I decided to seek him out, which wasn't difficult back then, as he was eager to do any kind of publicity.
‐‐ Mick Rock

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.
‐‐ Howlin' Wolf

Somebody has to be on stage, and some people have to be in the audience. That's the only difference. Don't put any thought as to why you are on the stage or how you need to be 'better' than the people in the audience. You aren't better. You're simply the speaker.
‐‐ James Altucher

Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.
‐‐ Eric Fellner

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
‐‐ Usher

Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
‐‐ Bryan Stevenson

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.
‐‐ Rick Perry

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!
‐‐ Jane Elliot

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
‐‐ Tupac Shakur

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
‐‐ Charles Barkley

Somebody in this regime used chemical weapons, whether it was Assad - an order from him, or his brother, or someone else. Who knows? I don't think the evidence is clear. But it is clear that chemical weapons were used.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield