All Quotes

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
‐‐ Moby

Somehow many have fallen into the belief that being a Christian is supposed to be a cake-walk. It's not.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
‐‐ Norma Shearer

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
‐‐ Nelson DeMille

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.
‐‐ Lev Vygotsky

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.
‐‐ Michael Masser

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
‐‐ Elliott Erwitt

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
‐‐ George McGovern

Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.
‐‐ Michael Nutter

Somehow, someway, you get kind of labeled this guy who was in a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie too many. And Freddie Prinze Jr. - it's not his fault, either - it's just these are the things that happen. I'm not a George Clooney; I don't have a ton of opportunities.
‐‐ Matthew Lillard

Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
‐‐ Bella Freud

Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.
‐‐ Doug Liman

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.
‐‐ Robert J. Shiller

Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.
‐‐ Bing Gordon

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
‐‐ David Lynch

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.
‐‐ Scott Brown

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
‐‐ Ethel Waters

Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.
‐‐ Simon Schama

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.
‐‐ Pat Metheny

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
‐‐ Joanne Liu

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
‐‐ Frederica Mathewes-Green

Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.
‐‐ Andy Stanley

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.
‐‐ Carrie Ann Inaba

Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?
‐‐ Emmylou Harris

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
‐‐ Chad Harbach

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
‐‐ Lyle Lovett

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts.
‐‐ Joy Harjo

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'
‐‐ Kris Allen

Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

Someone asked me about what's it like managing 2.2 million associates, and I said, 'When they're Wal-Mart associates, it's not all that hard because of the quality and the depth of our talent.' I'm really proud of the fact that 70% of the managers in the U.S. started as hourly associates with our company.
‐‐ Mike Duke

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
‐‐ Steven Wright

Someone asked me the other day, 'What is your most memorable moment in your career?' and by far, China was. Being so close - the medal race was one part of the story, and there were a few incidents through the event that amounted to that massive drama at the end that cost us the medal.
‐‐ Nathan Outteridge

Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
‐‐ Barbara Hambly

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.
‐‐ Katy B

Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'
‐‐ Tom Shadyac

Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'
‐‐ Richard Rainwater

Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.
‐‐ Alex Turner

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.
‐‐ Albert J. Nock

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella.
‐‐ June Foray