All Quotes

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
‐‐ Jim Henson

Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
‐‐ Matthew Barney

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.
‐‐ Trisha Goddard

Somebody made the point with regard to President Obama that, because he tried to do so much so fast, so extreme on health care, on energy, just run down the list, he went to... the fringe elements of his party to satisfy their demands.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.
‐‐ Donald Trump

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
‐‐ Steve Prefontaine

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
‐‐ Lance Bass

Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.
‐‐ John Lee Hancock

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
‐‐ Ninette de Valois

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
‐‐ Ida B. Wells

Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
‐‐ Christopher Lee

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
‐‐ Mickey Mantle

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.
‐‐ Jerry Springer

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
‐‐ Billie Holiday

Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.
‐‐ Phaneesh Murthy

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.
‐‐ Harry Essex

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
‐‐ Larry Wall

Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
‐‐ Miranda Richardson

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.
‐‐ Edward Burtynsky

Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
‐‐ Jerry Pournelle

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
‐‐ Dylan Thomas

Somebody's going to have to stand up to ISIS. It is a threat. When we have Americans beheaded, when we have people posing as refugees and become terrorists as in France, this is a scary time in the world.
‐‐ Rick Scott

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.
‐‐ Steve Womack

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
‐‐ Pete Rose

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
‐‐ Billy West

Somebody's upset with every movie.
‐‐ DMX

Somebody's willingness to let me photograph them, and willingness to tell me a story, has nothing to do with the words I say. It all has to do with the energy I'm giving off, which hopefully is very genuine, very interested energy. It's just two people having a conversation in the street. I think that's where genuine content comes from.
‐‐ Brandon Stanton

Somebody said, 'Get your agent to call the new Bob Cummings show. They're looking for a funny lady.' Within three hours, I had the job. That was January 1955. I had such fun with that show.
‐‐ Ann B. Davis

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.
‐‐ Donald Trump

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.
‐‐ Tom Waits

Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.
‐‐ Murray Walker

Somebody said something funny to me the other day. They said, 'Wolper, until two weeks ago, your tombstone was going to say, 'David Wolper, the man who produced 'Roots.' I think the tombstone now has a new inscription. It's going to be 'David Wolper, the man who produced the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics.'
‐‐ David L. Wolper

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'
‐‐ Annette Bening

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
‐‐ Ezra Pound

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.
‐‐ Kevin Brownlow

Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.
‐‐ James Patterson

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
‐‐ Gary Gygax

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
‐‐ Paul McCartney

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
‐‐ Ozzy Osbourne

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
‐‐ Joe Murray

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
‐‐ Anne Rivers Siddons