All Quotes

When somebody leaves Match.com or Chemistry.com, they ask you why you left. One box you can check is, 'I found somebody.' Between 15 and 20 percent of people check that box.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.
‐‐ Nick Lowe

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.
‐‐ Jason Sudeikis

When somebody's calling you 'Mommy,' it's a wonderful thing. But also to have that responsibility and to know that you and your partner have this little thing that's totally relying on you - and it made me, I suppose, less selfish. Not that I was mega-selfish to start with, but it's lovely having that responsibility. It's scary.
‐‐ Phyllis Logan

When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
‐‐ Sam Hunt

When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.
‐‐ James Callis

When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.
‐‐ Tila Tequila

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
‐‐ Henry Flynt

When somebody says, 'This must be a children's book,' basically they're saying, 'You must be a child.' And so my answer is, 'Well, yes, I guess I am a child.' But I don't think of myself that way.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
‐‐ Lemn Sissay

When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career, I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.
‐‐ Jim Leyland

When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.
‐‐ Tim Allen

When somebody throws something out the car window, honk at them, but don't give them the finger. We've got to temper our negative feelings about people who desecrate the environment.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.
‐‐ Tom Verlaine

When somebody used to compliment me, I'd spend 10 minutes trying to talk them out of it.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences, or music, that somebody's been exposed to. But that's an individual thing; there's no sort of universal understanding of what jazz is.
‐‐ Gerald Clayton

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
‐‐ Samantha Fox

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.
‐‐ Pete Rose

When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.
‐‐ Bobby Bonilla

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.
‐‐ John Carpenter

When someone acknowledges you for something that they think about you, it's a huge compliment.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
‐‐ Tamara Mellon

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'
‐‐ Simon Cowell

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
‐‐ Lisa Loeb

When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up loving and who you wanted to be, you can't say no. Even if it's the most terrifying thing someone asks you to do.
‐‐ Amanda Fuller

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
‐‐ Osric Chau

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
‐‐ Henning Mankell

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
‐‐ Henry Rollins

When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
‐‐ Rumi

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
‐‐ Barry Zito

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.
‐‐ Dave Parnas

When someone calls me a blogger, I think, 'That's one of the things I used to do.' I'm a creative director for my shoe brand; I'm the editor-in-chief of 'The Blonde Salad,' which is a website and not just a blog anymore.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.
‐‐ Ahmed Ben Bella

When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, the Wayans, Adam Sandler - they get it. And I've always felt that Andy Samberg is the future of comedy.
‐‐ Terry Crews

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.
‐‐ Michael Franti

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.
‐‐ Suze Orman

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.
‐‐ Joe Rogan

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.
‐‐ Ashley Madekwe

When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.
‐‐ James E. Faust

When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
‐‐ Andrew Buchan

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
‐‐ Yair Lapid