Quotes on Something

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That's what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.

I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.

After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.

If you have children, you cannot feed them forever with flags for breakfast and cartridges for lunch. You need something more substantial. Unless you educate your children and spend less money on conflicts, unless you develop your science, technology and industry, you don't have a future.

There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show up. That is something that is both sad and kind of beautiful about it. It remains analog. It remains special and irreducible.

Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.

I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.