S Quotes
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“Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.”
“Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'”
“Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck? Of course not, Bohr replied, but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not.”
“Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping.”
Source: The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad
“Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.”
“Somebody once said it's the SOUL that matters”
“Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.”
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”
“Somebody once said that the ideal size of a country for democracy to work is around 10 million people - and that kind of makes sense if you think of it in very crude terms. In a smaller country, I guess it's easier to maintain some kind of common ground.I do think the Swedish system of government works really well. Obviously, everything doesn't work perfectly, but I like the principle of it.”
“Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.”
“Somebody once said that there are only two plots in fiction. The first is, somebody takes a trip (The Iliad, The Odyssey, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn, Heart of Darkness). The second one is, a stranger comes to town (Absalom Absalom; The Great Gatsby; The Glass Menagerie). If you think about it, this is absolutely true.”
“Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.”
“Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.”
“Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.”
“Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.”
“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.”
Source: Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography
“Somebody once said, educate a woman and you will educate a family. I am saying, empower a woman to become an entrepreneur, and you will create an entire family of entrepreneurs. Woman entrepreneurship is the need of the nation right now. It's the surest and quickest way to make India a superpower.”
“Somebody once told me - and I could be wrong about this - that The West Wing was, on any given episode, $300,000 over, on average. Now today, if you were $10,000 over budget, they would cancel you. For sure.”
“Somebody once told me, and I wish to God that I had got it sooner, that there is no such thing as a dying person; there are living people and there are dead people. And as long as somebody is alive- as long as they have any sentience or sense about them- you have to expect and allow them to be who they have always been. Never more important than at the end of somebody's life that they get to be who they are and who they always were.”
Source: The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go
“Somebody once told me if you're doing what you're supposed to you don't have to force it.”
“Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.”
“Somebody once told me the definition of hell:
“On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous”
“Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.”
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.”
“somebody out not back being out again”
Source: Falling Awake
“Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.”
“Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.”
“Somebody please, please tell me why these Rappahannock dreams keep passing me by?”
Source: Wet Matches
“Somebody pointed out to me that there's no horror film on my resume, which is true, but I also don't really go see those movies. Although when I was thinking about it, I was thinking "I would probably have a really nice beach house if I made a horror movie." They seem to be very popular. I just don't think it's my thing.”
“Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have some cult going. Its not the fault of the internet, it's the fault of a social and culture system that doesn't educate people properly and in fact on purpose. They don't want to educate people properly.”
“Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.”
“Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.”
“Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.”
“Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.”
Source: The Hero's Lot
“Somebody's got to win this war, right?”
Source: Lazarus, Vol. 4: Poison
“Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.”
“Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.”
“Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.”
Source: Last Chapter
“Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.”
“Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.”
“Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.”
Source: Poems: A Souvenir
“Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.”
“Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.”
“Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.”
“Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.”
“Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.”
“Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.”
“Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.”