- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something Quotes
On possibility and ideas that don't fit a category.
These quotes use 'something' to point at ideas that resist easy labels: a genre dismissed as less than serious, alliances formed for practical reasons, and cultural needs that never fit a fixed category. For more, see our Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
- Try
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew if I were ever to leave 'Godspell,' which I loved so much, it would have to be for something really spectacular.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.
- Nov 07, 2020
We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a horrible producer when it comes to me, but for other artists, I don't know what it is, but something happens, and I'm just really good at it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One knows something is important when the powers that be choose not to acknowledge it in public.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020