All Quotes

There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.
‐‐ John Patrick Shanley

There is some little boy and some little girl out there, somewhere, who believe that when they put Under Armour on, they can do just a little bit more.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
‐‐ David Viscott

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
‐‐ Sophocles

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
‐‐ Ann Beattie

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.
‐‐ Emily Oster

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
‐‐ Estelle Parsons

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
‐‐ Chanakya

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.
‐‐ Kim Dae Jung

There is some suffering that awaits us all.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.
‐‐ Charles H. Townes

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
‐‐ James Thurber

There is something about a theatre room that is really like a laboratory for trying things and failing, because you have time to do that, and you can explore something deeply and discard it if it's not working.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go and breathe and believe that it will come through.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
‐‐ Cornel West

There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.
‐‐ Renzo Piano

There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

There is something about having babies in your 40s that is unique in both a humiliating and amazing way.
‐‐ Sharon Maguire

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
‐‐ Andrew Sullivan

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.
‐‐ Ryan Lewis

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.
‐‐ David Cheriton

There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
‐‐ Natalie Zea

There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.
‐‐ Blake Lively

There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.
‐‐ Dabney Coleman

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
‐‐ Edward Young

There is something about poverty that smells like death.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and kind, and this is what I have tried to capture in the pictures I have taken of them as well as in my pictures of Prince William and Catherine.
‐‐ Mario Testino

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
‐‐ Anatole Broyard

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

There is something about someone making a fantastic sandwich, taking care to spread lots of mayo all the way to the edges. Making sure every bite has a bit of everything in it. There's something special about that.
‐‐ April Bloomfield

There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them.
‐‐ Hayden Panettiere

There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.
‐‐ Maurice Flanagan

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
‐‐ Nick Park

There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you're really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can't do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
‐‐ Alice Englert

There is something about the stage that makes it so much better than being in the studio. I always connect with my audience; a concert to me is a collaboration between me and the audience, and I love it so much.
‐‐ Sophie B. Hawkins

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
‐‐ Anne Carson

There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.
‐‐ Elena Anaya

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
‐‐ Harriet Ann Jacobs