Something Quotes - page 3

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. (John Wooden)
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. View quote
Frank Herbert
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. View quote
Walt Disney
If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it. View quote
Albert Einstein
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. View quote
Frank Zappa
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. View quote
John Williams
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. View quote
John Dewey
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. (Norman Cousins)
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. View quote
Susan Sontag
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. View quote
Susan Sontag
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. View quote
Giorgio Armani
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. View quote
Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. View quote
Stephen Hawking
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. View quote
Norman Mailer
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. (G. K. Chesterton)
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. View quote
Jane Goodall
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. View quote
Pancho Villa