All Quotes

Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.
‐‐ Nick Moran

Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment or not, but.
‐‐ Lucy Punch

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
‐‐ Paul Simon

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
‐‐ Dan Quisenberry

Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.
‐‐ Geoffrey Rush

Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night?
‐‐ Michael Specter

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.
‐‐ Caroline Rhea

Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
‐‐ Niall Horan

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.
‐‐ Michael Bolton

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Someone very important once told me, 'You can make almost everything look great.' That's the best compliment I have received till date.
‐‐ Nimrat Kaur

Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.
‐‐ Eden Sher

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
‐‐ Elias Canetti

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
‐‐ Studs Terkel

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.
‐‐ Nigel Barker

Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
‐‐ Pat Metheny

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
‐‐ Hanns Eisler

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
‐‐ Terry McAuliffe

Someone who'll bring some normalcy into my life and help me stay in touch with reality. That is something I'm curious about. There are so many actors who are married to people from non-film backgrounds, and their marriages are successful. I'm tired of dating actresses.
‐‐ Shahid Kapoor

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused.
‐‐ Frederica Mathewes-Green

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
‐‐ Anita Desai

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered.
‐‐ Franco Nero

Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Someone with 4As at A-level from Eton may look good on paper and come across as very smooth, but push a bit more, and often you get the impression they have learned to pass exams rather than think for themselves.
‐‐ Cherie Blair

Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.
‐‐ Amanda Peet

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.
‐‐ Terry Southern

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.
‐‐ Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone younger at heart should replace you, and that should be you. I'm willing to. I'm willing to become younger. I try to reinvent myself every few years anyway.
‐‐ George M. Church

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.
‐‐ Anthony Head