All Quotes

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
‐‐ Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
‐‐ Richard Le Gallienne

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
‐‐ Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

There is something of the warrior in me.
‐‐ Lech Walesa

There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
‐‐ Lord Byron

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
‐‐ Kenny Guinn

There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.
‐‐ James Hetfield

There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.
‐‐ Lee Ryan

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.
‐‐ Katie Aselton

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.
‐‐ Dodie Smith

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.
‐‐ Suzy Menkes

There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
‐‐ Jane Austen

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.
‐‐ Steve Toltz

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.
‐‐ Marcia Angell

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.
‐‐ Lily Koppel

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

There is something so rewarding about dancing. It's almost spiritual - you let loose, you feel free, you get endorphins from the exercise.
‐‐ Julianne Hough

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
‐‐ Frederick Soddy

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
‐‐ Jack Gould

There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
‐‐ George Steiner

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
‐‐ Josef Skvorecky

There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf.
‐‐ Leslie Bibb

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

There is something that has become part of my routine that I eat two or three times a week. Sushi. It exists in Europe but isn't very popular, and especially in L.A., I started eating it. It's both tasty and healthy.
‐‐ Marko Jaric

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
‐‐ Robert Half

There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.
‐‐ Kiele Sanchez

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.
‐‐ Peace Pilgrim

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.
‐‐ James Lasdun

There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
‐‐ Edward Zwick

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
‐‐ Joy Williams